“...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
― The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 4
― The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 4
“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.”
― Coin Locker Babies
― Coin Locker Babies
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“By earnest self-examination strive to realize, and not merely hold as a theory, that evil is a passing phase, a self-created shadow; that all your pains, sorrows and misfortunes have come to you by a process of undeviating and absolutely perfect law; have come to you because you deserve and require them, and that by first enduring, and then understanding them, you may be made stronger, wiser, nobler.”
― The Path of Prosperity
― The Path of Prosperity
“Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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