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“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”

— Franz Kafka

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I post for the people who love cappuccinos, 2nd hand books, romance, melodic poetry, journaling, ethereal sounding music, op shopping, victorian architecture, doilies, rainy days, and roses.

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New York Public Library

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“It’s about who you miss at 2 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not 2 in the morning when you’re lonely.”

— Unknown

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Anita Ekberg by Andre de Dienes

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tale as old as time🥂

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“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[text ID:   Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically- only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway, it can even be very brief, briefer than today's letters, just 2 lines, just one, just one word, but if I had to go without them I would suffer terribly.]

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“If it breaks your heart but opens your eyes, take that as a win.”

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STEVIE NICKS in fleetwood mac’s ’tusk’ music video

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

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"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."

-Lisa Kleypas

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Jane Austen, from “Pride and Prejudice”

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Considering this masterlist may help you nerdies be crazier.

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Book Recommendations: CLASSICS (ANTIQUITY)

1. WHERE TO START

The Odyssey, Homer

The Iliad, Homer

The Aeneid, Virgile

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Dialogues, Plato

The Symposium, Plato

Politics or Poetics, Aristotle

If Not, Winter, Sappho

Medea, Euripides

Hippolytos, Euripides

Iphigenia in Taurus, Euripides

Bacchae, Euripides

The Oresteia, Aeschylus

The Theban Plays, Sophocles

Heracles, Euripides

Andromaque, Jean Racine

Sappho, Fragments

Anonymous, Orphic Hymns

Hesiod, Theogony

History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

Bakkhai, Euripides

Epigrams, Callimachus

The Olympian Odes, Pindar

Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius

Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus

2. GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH INTERPRETATIONS AND REWRITINGS

■ Poetry

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Averno, Louise Glück

Meadowlands, Louise Glück

Memorial, Alice Oswald

Orpheus and Eurydice, Gregory Orr

Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke

Roman Elegies, J. W. von Goethe

Endymion, John Keats

■ Fiction

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

Kassandra, Christa Wolf

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis

Theseus, André Gide

Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar

The Adventures of Telemachus, Fénelon

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Birth of The Odyssey, Jean Giono

■ Drama

The Flies, Jean-Paul Sartre

Elektra, Jean Giraudoux

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Phaedra's Love, Sarah Kane

Phaedra, Jean Racine

Andromache, Jean Racine

Iphigenia Auf Tauris, J. W. von Goethe

Medea, Pierre Corneille

Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Infernal Machine, Jean Cocteau

Persephone, André Gide

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