Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
━ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via pavorst)
People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.
━ Abraham Hicks   (via barbieandken)

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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
━ David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via ontelbaar)

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I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.
━ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  (via catharinethegreat)

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russkayaliteratura:

“Those sweet fleeting moments, why could one not live an eternal undying life in them?”

-Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three (via petite—fleur)

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I spend the better part of my day contemplating the night.
━ Boris Vian, from L’ecume des jours (via lotusohm)

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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie (via dulcetdecember)

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I don’t know why I’m joking; actually, I feel miserable.
━ Jean-Luc Godard (via johnsteinbeck-)

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How can one live with such a heart?
Long ago I gave up singing to it,
it will never be satisfied or lulled.
One night I will say to it:
Heart, be still,
and it will.
━ Margaret Atwood (via likeafieldmouse)

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everlytrue:

[Typographic Verses]
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
━ Virginia Woolf (via gebreken)

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