soft x dark academia

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The great object of life is Sensation -- to feel we exist -- even though in pain --

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism-- that is what our century wants.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

I had a passion for sensations... the search for beauty being the real secret of life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

And it was my favourite scene I couldn't tell you what it means But it meant something to me

With the weight of the Bible I will break Adam's ribs, and repeat, my dear Eve, you do not take after this. You were not made in a man's image! But if that's the case, why do you feel so lost?

Now that I know what it means to be dead, I can start living again.

Before you came along I spent four years with someone who would watch me watch the world, but couldn't hold my hand and see what I saw. Someone who loved me so much but couldn't understand how a human soul can mimic the seasons, or how a person can be fine for so long but wake up one morning wanting to die all over again.