FHIS IS SO CUTE AAAAA

this is genuinely so real omg.

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

Donna Tartt, Chatelaine Interview (2013)

exercising>>>

oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall

At last man will again find there the wine of the absurd and the bread of indifference on which he feeds his greatness.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

albert my beloved

Albert Camus and his cat, Cigarette

If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones, then spit us out reborn.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History