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#1

“Your fall from grace and faith has been the fall of a century.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: deep, emotional, profound

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#2

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#3

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: jem-carstairs, will-herondale

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#4

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#5

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#7

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“It always makes me a little sad when you laugh," Julian went on. "The way it sort of takes you by surprise. I love it, it has that sweet sincerity that's the best part of you, but it still kills me how you never seem to expect it. All I want to do is make you happy, and you're the unhappiest person I've ever met.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

tags: dark-academia, laugh, sadness

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#9

“I hope you looked west while I was looking east, and that for a moment you met my eyes without knowing it. I know you never look away, ever when your eyes are closed, but I'm never certain you can see what's really there.
I miss you to pieces.
Yours Always
- J”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

tags: dark-academia, letters

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#10

“Our own selves makes us most
unhappy,and thats why we're so
anxious to lose them,dont you think;”
― dona tartt

tags: dark-academia, secret-history

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#11

“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can't say it.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#12

“We were never supposed to be in love; for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies.”
― Laura Chouette, Profound Reverie

tags: aesthetic, dark-academia, deep-quotes, life-quotes, literature, modern-poetry, poetry, poets, quotes-about-life

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#13

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: boys, rain, summer

2049 likes

#14

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#15

“I'm homesick all the time," she said, still not looking at him "I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

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#16

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#17

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love

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#18

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

tags: gut-symmetries

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#19

“Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.”
― William Godwin, Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England, Volume 1

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#20

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: longing, love, sadness

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#21

“All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

tags: love

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#22

“How easy was it to just grab a handful of you before you dissolved? If someone asks you tell them loving you was the closest I came to seeing God.”
― Ayushee Ghoshal

tags: arabic-poetry, dark-academia, heartbreak-quotes, love, love-quotes, romance, romance-quotes, unrequited-love

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#23

“Aren’t we all starving -
just for different hearts?”
― Laura Chouette

tags: breakup, dark-academia, deep-quotes, hearts, love-hurts, love-quotes-and-sayings, relationships, sad-love-quotes, sad-quotes, starving

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#24

“I promise to see you, exactly as you are, as often as you let me.”
― Jasmine Silvera, Binding Shadows

tags: dark-academia, love, love-quotes, paranormal-romance

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#25

“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

tags: academic, academics, application, apply, change, college, education, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leaders, leadership, martin-luther, martin-luther-king, martin-luther-king-jr, school, university, valuable, value

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#26

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: academic, college, curiosity, daily-motivation, desire, dream, education, enthusiasm, failure, grades, great-expectations, greate-glory, inspirational-life, knowledge, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, learning-process, passionate-life, persistence, personal-development, personal-growth, positive-outlook, positive-thinking, positivity, school, self-education, self-esteem, self-help, self-motivation, skills, success, teachable, university, uplifting, virtue, willing-spirit, wisdom, words-of-wisdom

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#27

“I think about it quite a bit, actually, that look on his face. I think about a lot of things. I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greak. χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά... Beauty is harsh...”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: beauty, dark-academia, disillusion, greek, loss-of-self, redemption

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#28

“But perhaps what felt impossible was leaving that person behind. When your love for a person is so profound that it’s part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin. Charlie’s and”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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