Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Isaac Asimov (via fyp-science)
It is just the literature that we read for “amusement” or “purely for
pleasure” that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.
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I was more of a genius in dreams than in life. That is my tragedy.
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Fernando Pessoa
(via forgottencityiram)
(via forgottencityiram)
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
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Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (via wordsnquotes)
…Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.
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Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (via wordsnquotes)
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you’ll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what you create. Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but doesn’t really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope for something good to come along. Something to make you feel connected, to make you feel whole, to make you feel loved.
I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I’m much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That’s just the kind of person I am.
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