#luciferifilia

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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

— J.D. Salinger. (via. luciferifilia)

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner. (via. luciferifilia)

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So many books, so little time.

— Frank Zappa, (via. luciferifilia).

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Oscar Wilde. (via. luciferifilia)

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So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

— Stephen Chbosky. (via. luciferifilia)

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green, via luciferifilia.

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From an english author from the late 19th century: A true gentleman always buys three copies of each book: one to read, another to keep on the shelf and the last to give as a gift.

— Mário Quintana. (via. luciferifilia).

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Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4. (via. luciferifilia).

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Franz Kafka, via luciferifilia.

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They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.

— Mike Carey, (via. luciferifilia).

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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via luciferifilia).

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I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

— Federico Fellini. (via. luciferifilia)

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You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.

— Kate Jacobs. (via. luciferifilia)

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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (via luciferifilia)

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

— Marlene Dietrich. (via. luciferifilia)

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If you could recommend a book to a random person on Tumblr, what would it be and for what reason?