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THE PARTHENON: former temple on the athenian acropolis, greece, dedicated to the patron goddess athena, (438 b.c.).
THE PANTHEON: former roman temple, the best-preserved building from ancient Rome (c. 125).
“Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed. Stop swallowing your words. Stop caring what other people think. Wear what you want. Say what you want. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Play it loud as fuck and dance to it. Go out for a drive at midnight and forget that you have school the next day. Stop waiting for Friday. Live now. Do it now. Take risks. Tell secrets. This life is yours. When are you going to realize that you can do whatever you want?”
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“So yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There’s no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I’ve ended the world before. No one survived. Least of all of me.”
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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
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“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via goodreadss)
saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake then move not, while my prayers effect i take. thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. then have my lips the sin that they have took. sin from thy lips ? o trespass sweetly urged ! give me my sin again.
“Night fell, dark and close. I had expected it like that, horrific and sticky with blackness, with the despair of worlds, with a moon and stars.”
— Santiago Dabove, from La Muerta Y Su Traje: Stories; “Being Dust,”
“…the romantic beauty of living desperately, dangerously, destructively.”
— Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950
“I have escaped your tormenting love,”
— Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950
“Love is a matter of inner nature, not of relationship. Love has nothing to do with relationship, love is a state of being. It is an inner component of one’s individuality.”
— Osho (via goodreadss)
“Do not bring people into your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts. Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.”
— Michelle Obama (via goodreadss)



