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#1

“June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven
Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems

tags: cold, heaven, june, mold, mould, sun, winter

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#2

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
― Joseph Conrad

tags: water

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#3

“JUDAS: Why ... didn't you make me good enough ... so that you could've loved me?”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

tags: good-enough, judas

108 likes

#4

“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

tags: death, grief, love

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#5

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: nature, ocean

1206 likes

#6

“Mother is God in the eyes of a child.”
― William Makepeace Tackery

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#6

“I am the shape you made me.
Filth teaches filth.”
― Sophokles

tags: im-bald-anne

79 likes

#8

“He grins again, and everything inside me moves. Oh, love. Love.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

tags: love, romance

29 likes

#9

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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#10

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

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#11

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu

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#12

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”
― Christopher Marlowe

tags: love

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#13

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: drinking, relationships, women

635 likes

#14

“What nourishes me, destroys me”
― Christopher Marlowe

81 likes

#15

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

tags: afterlife, hell

139 likes

#16

“Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

tags: horror

107 likes

#17

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#18

“The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross”
― Jocelyn Murray, The English Pirate

tags: diplomacy, enemies-and-friends, hostility, sea, ships, tact

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