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which would you prefer?

option 1: to die young, having lived a life overflowing with adventure, excitement, and fulfillment, and never having to experience the decay of your youth

option 2: to die old, having lived a life of deep connections, rich experiences, and simple pleasures, yet needing to watch yourself and those you love slowly descend into the grave

"Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of

day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the

light."

- Dylan Thomas

it's time for dark academia dream girl winter

carpe diem

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

the piano is my happy place

just watched dead poets society

books upon books upon books

my yearning to collect penguin classics never ceases. it only grows, grows, grows

Softly tagged by @orphic-studies 🤎

last song: cinnamon - tamino

fav color: chocolate brown

last book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

last film: Pride and Prejudice (2005) 🫣

last tv show: Queen Charlotte

relationship status: single

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet

last thing I googled: philosophical movies

current obsessions: tamino, classical concerts, just the whole dark academia aesthetic

looking forward to: this coming semester…I'll be studying philosophy and american history

my tag: @fictionalaffection

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I find it shameful that everyone talks about Oscar Wilde but no one ever uses his full name

early morning coffee and self-discipline

does anyone else find chocolate to be very academic

trying to run only pulled me closer

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

- Ovid, Metamorphoses

literally tho

Communication is key? Great! I was taught to suppress my emotions until I no longer felt them! 🥳

O Fortuna

Velut luna

Statu variabilis

Semper crescis

Aut decrescis

- Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

merry Christmas

"But you always were wrong: only I can't help loving you."

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

frantic writing and study halls

"The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."

— Psalm 55:21 (KJV)

let the Christmas spirit thaw your frozen soul. warm it in the fiery glow of nostalgia, in the lingering embers of bygone days. remember the warmth -- even if just for a little while, my dear

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

- George Orwell, 1984

"All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream."

- Edgar Allan Poe

what if the light at the end of the tunnel is a mere reflection of what has already passed?

the heart is ever searching for its truest home

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

- Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5

time has no compassion on the sorrows of the soul, yet it heals all wounds

together, we are lost

but it's better to be lost than alone