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Did you leave because you saw my ugliness? Or because I saw yours?

amindmadeofwordsandsilence  (via wnq-writers)

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psycho (1960) / bates motel (2017)

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle (via fyp-psychology)

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I am large, I contain multitudes.

Walt Whitman (via philosophybits)

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Tampere, Finland by Juuso Hämäläinen

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That’s what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

Birdman (2014), Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu (via wnq-movies)

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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

-Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Get This Book (via awesomebookquotes)

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High Tension (2003) dir. Alexandre Aja

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"We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serious, and he stopped me, and he said that unrequited love was not possible; that it was not love. He said that love must be freely given, and freely taken, such that the lovers, in joining, make the equal halves of something whole."

--- Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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"He was reminded of an old riddle his mischievous cousin Samuel liked to put to his friends in synagogue. It was a paradox: If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself? The riddle was considered disrespectful, he recalled, even blasphemous. It had that evasive quality which meant that, however you answered, you were wrong."

--- David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

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"We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence."

— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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"You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time."

--- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game