February 2012
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Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds… That is why philosophers say it is impossible on earth to conceive the essence of things.
ooh dostoevsky.
you fuck my mind.
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“All Jane Austen. All the time! It’s the perfect antidote to life.”
– Jane Austen Book Club
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She was no longer that woman with brown eyes
who once had echoed through the poet’s songs,
no longer the wide couch’s scent and island,
and that man’s property no longer.
She was already loosened like long hair,
poured out like fallen rain,
shared like a limitless supply.
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One would think that the heavens were crazed with lust
to join the turbulent sea
which returned their bizarre passion
and tried to rise up and embrace the air
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dear tumblr
why do i feel guilty for neglecting you in favor of my homework?
shouldn’t it be the other way around?
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research in the library on austen
“Why do we want to watch our Victorian lovers not doing anything? We wade through almost six hours of the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice just to get to the final kiss between Darcy and Elizabeth. It is in the apparent “nothing” that we hope to locate their sexual secret- which for us is the secret of sexuality that eludes us as a culture.”
- “The Return to...
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Cherish this ecstasy, however senseless it may...
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i think
that as long as there is poetry
i will be ok.
going on a date.
why.
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note to self
WHY DID YOU JUST DRINK A CUP OF COFFEE AT 11 PM?!
you bring this upon yourself.
“I still will not leave him! From now on I will never, never leave him!” she spoke with a sort of strain, in a sort of pale, forced ecstasy. “I do not mean that I shall drag myself after him, trying to throw myself in front of his eyes every minute, tormenting him- oh, no, I shall go to another town, anywhere you life, but I will watch him all my life, all my life, untiringly....
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“People do a lot of things that they don’t ever speak of.”
- Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
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that awkward moment
when you’re dancing at a frat party
and it’s almost 1 am
and you realize: i’d rather be in bed reading.
:)
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