Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
— Charles Bukowski (via decembrist)
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Sun, 8th Apr — 148 notes
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Thu, 29th Mar — 14 notes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
— Herman Melville (via theunquotables)
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Thu, 22nd Mar — 12,384 notes
Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?” No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via shannon-barry)
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Sat, 17th Mar — 8,044 notes
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)
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Fri, 16th Mar — 29,952 notes
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
— Oscar Wilde (via cavum)
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Thu, 8th Mar — 2 notes
You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
— Tove Jansson (via collectedrocks)
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Mon, 27th Feb — 47 notes
I’ve just felt so destructive all week. It’s awful, I’m horrible.
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via colourmegreenwich)
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Fri, 24th Feb — 45 notes
You can’t just sit there and put everyone’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.
— Stephen Chbosky (via egosolus)
