"I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered." — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via opaca-viarum)

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"My heartbeat accelerates. I am in the here, in the now. I can also in the future. I am holding her and wanting and knowing and hoping all at once. We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It’s the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it’s racing toward." —

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

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"If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I should write: ‘I recognize only one duty and that is to love.’ And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say no. I say no with all my strength." — Albert Camus - Notebooks (via thejuvenilia)

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"Sounds like an illusion to me. Lives don’t change. We simply become more comfortable with our core misery. Which is a form of happiness." — Dr David Worth, Bored to Death, s01e03. (via occultette)

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"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not." — Albert Camus (via bloodisthenewblackk)

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"I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human race." — Rosika Schiwner (via myheadisweak)

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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." — Anais Nin (via thingsandschemes)

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