"You Must Have Chaos Within You To Give Birth To A Dancing Star."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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“And you are my sacred book. My poem.”

– Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks

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There Are Such Things As Ghosts. People Everywhere Have Always Known That. And We Believe In Them Every

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“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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Medicine, Law, Business, Engineering, These Are Noble Pursuits, And Necessary To Sustain Life.

medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life.

but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-John Keating; Dead Poets Society

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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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they are the dusk that first kisses my cheek, their words a haunting ode to a lost goddess; ancient letters adorn the poems they’ve writtten and i consume each syllable feverishly, searching for my likeness within the epigram of their secret love

ig: rosenaufsuden

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Gaza Is Under Attack Right Now In The Middle Of The Night Please Don’t Let Palestinians Suffer In Silence

gaza is under attack right now in the middle of the night please don’t let palestinians suffer in silence please stay updated please stay aware. people are trying to trend #GazaUnderAttack on twitter

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