Dark Academia Moodboard Challenge:

a quiet resignation. tathev simonyan

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

George Eliot // Edward Young // Malcolm Liepke // Marcel Proust // Kahlil Gibran // Thomas Aquinas // Holly Warburton // Taylor Swift // Arnold Lobel // Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall — like seeking love in a whorehouse.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980

starry night

Albertine Bookstore, NYC

one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.

March, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]

" You are killing me, and you are keeping me from dying, that is love."

- Mahmoud Darwish

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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my room perpetually smells like coffee now