"I am the wound and the knife!
I am the slap and the cheek!
I am the limbs and the rack,
And the victim and the executioner!
I am the vampire of my own heart."

Charles Baudelaire (via ontheedgeofdarkness)

(Source: vivialic)

"Peel my fear off. Take a brief glimpse on the inside. Get scared. Lie. Run. Off you go."

Gertrude Stein, Collected Works (via violentwavesofemotion)

"It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way."

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via depressionparty)

(Source: existentialistaesthetics)

"In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka"

(via journalofanobody)

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❝ضَعْ فَخْرَكَ، وَاحْطُطْ كِبْرَكَ، وَاذْكُرْ قَبْرَكَ

Put aside your pride, set down your arrogance, and remember your grave.❞

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ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib (al-Zamakhsharī, Rabīʿ al-Abrār). (via spiritualaspirant)

"The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process."

Virginia Woolf, 21 April 1918 (via wordsthat-speak)