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The Barrovian
"Semper Sursum"
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
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"Rise, and rise again..."
There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, & that is suicide. Judging whether life is or not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus (via nachlasse)
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The scariest monsters are the ones that live within our souls.
Edgar Allen Poe (via fightforasmile)
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Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)
Love this quote
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway (via lizattemptstoblog)
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Beauty and the Beast prologue
I never realized how absolutely beautiful this is
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Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. That’s the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back.
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Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you don’t feel like it. If you can’t write, read.
Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)
I needed to hear this today.
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And again today.
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(See also: the Law of Undulations)
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