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"He smiled sadly. "It comes to this then: there always have been people like me, and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."
"That is so, Mr Hall; or, as psychiatry prefers to put it, there has been, is, and always will be every conceivably type of person. And you must remember that your type was once put to death in England."

"I do not know how, any more than I know how I was born. It is outside reason, it is against my wish"

"Three ages of woman - Jeffrey Catherine Jones, as with many of his paintings of women, this appears to be his own face, though he predicted his own old age incorrectly" Fucking brutal, why are we bullying Jeffrey Catherine Jones so hard???

Every single time I read the picture of Dorian Gray chapter 9 is both my favourite and my least favourite, it’s such a break in the pacing and flow of the book, but there is something so great in tying corruption and beauty together in this way

Participating in the Dracula Daily again this year :)

Do you ever pick up a book and immediately go “oh I get why this is considered a classic” because that’s me with this one

This is creepy, the horrors are here……. Oohhh I get it, it’s a metaphor, the horrors are having to work in a capitalist system….. OH FUCK THE CREEPY HORRORS ARE BACK

A horror book set in IKEA? Sign me the fuck up

'I fear that the ghost exists,' said Lord Canterville, 'it has been well known for three centuries, since 1584 in fact, and it always makes an appearance before the death of any member of our family.'
'Well, so does the family doctor for that matter, Lord Canterville.'

Time for the regular reading of my favourite ghost story. Oscar Wilde already mastered it in 1887, everyone else can go home.

Soms koop je een boek voor de meme en bedenk je je een aantal maanden later pas dat 784 pagina’s toch best veel ruimte in beslag neemt op je boekenplank alleen maar voor een gimmick….. dus ja dan moet je het eigenlijk toch wel lezen