Because I’ve seen the truth–it was not some invention of the mind; I saw it, I truly saw it, and know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing their capacity to live on the earth. I don’t want to believe, and can’t believe, that evil is man’s normal state.

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by S. Koteliansky, from a diary entry featured in Pages from the Journal of an Author
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Beethoven to a t

I am afraid to own a Body—
I am afraid to own a Soul—
Profound—precarious Property—
Possession, not optional—

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— Emily Dickinson, “I am afraid to own a Body”, in Une Âme en Incandescence (via antigonick)

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“Matthew Simmonds
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I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten.
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“101 Dalmatians (1961)
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“The Belvedere Torso, Apollonious of Athens, 1st century BC
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ambitious, striving for the monumental

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weepforadonais:

“How to entangle, trammel up and snare your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there (…)?”

— John Keats, from Lamia.

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