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Walden
by
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
―
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
―
“It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Youth is the age of despairs.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
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