#romantic academia

I didn’t know I was blue, until I heard her sing.

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At the end, promises are just words and words have always been weak.

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"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting ...

Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to ...

Franz Kafka Rumi Haruki Murakami Theodore Dreiser Sigmund Freud Rudyard Kipling Henry Miller...

- Franz Kafka...

all i want is to recieve and write vulnerable handwritten letter....

Just like Alan Ginsberg, I, too, don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision....

Franz Kafka...

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow

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Voltaire Mikhail Bulgakov Elizabeth Gaskell Alexandre Cabanel / Fallen Angel Allen Ginsberg Gaston Leroux ...

When Nietzsche said You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star, and Anaïs Nin said In chaos there ...

"We read to know we're not alone." - William Nicholson, Shadowlands...

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Franz Kafka, diary entry, November 9, 1911...

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather ...

Franz Kafka's desk I sat at my fine desk ... It's a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer's ...

Avijeet Das / Charlotte Brontë / Bill Bryson / I Origins / Carlo Rovelli / Carl Sagan...

EXULANSIS n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—...

When Franz Kafka said You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love, and Richard Jackson said ...

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky...

When you're faced with a seemingly unsolvable problem, reduce yourself to the problem and you yourself become that problem. ...

And like the moon we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again.

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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." -Oscar Wilde...