“Literature Always Anticipates Life. It Doesn’t Copy It But Moulds It To It’s Purpose.” ―

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.” ― Oscar Wilde

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It is so cruel that we think we’re wasting time when we’re doing something that we love and that does not have any materialistic returns

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3 years ago

When Oscar Wilde said, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars," and, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all," and, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”

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hate it here (realm of consciousness) going back to sleep

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~ Joseph Campbell

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the poet and his muse.

dedicated to my lovely dorian.

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"You Must Have Chaos Within You To Give Birth To A Dancing Star."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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3 years ago

“A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs”

-Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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