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Currently trying to pick my major like:
the fact that is impossible for me, in one life, to study classical studies, archaeology, international relations, all the literature in the world, get a languages degree in italian, german, greek, latin, russian and french; learn how to play the violin and also piano, cello, guitar and the flute; learn how to sing, both modern singing and classical singing/opera; is my villain origin story.
Currently trying to pick my major like:
the fact that is impossible for me, in one life, to study classical studies, archaeology, international relations, all the literature in the world, get a languages degree in italian, german, greek, latin, russian and french; learn how to play the violin and also piano, cello, guitar and the flute; learn how to sing, both modern singing and classical singing/opera; is my villain origin story.
The pressing desire to be with someone when Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself."
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
~Jane Austen
The fact that music exists, makes life bearably worth living.
‘A long time ago i was desperately in love’
Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "True Romances," originally published in 1981
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena
Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
I am a hopeless romantic. Special emphasis on HOPELESS, but a romantic nonetheless!
I'd cut my hands on a paring knife if it meant he'd be happy and full of sliced persimmons. I'd happily bleed for him and wouldn't even care, so long as he's okay.
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.
Margaret Atwood
Its like my best brain time starts at peak midnight with caffeine and sugar rush.
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering heights
Show me your thorns and i'll show you hands ready to bleed.
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Doestoevsky
The feelings were inexorably pervasive; they slyly slipped through the crevices of my thoughts as a persistent conundrum.
I’d write you ninety nine reasons as to why you should leave me and in the hundredth i’d write ‘STAY’
And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid.
Franz Kafka