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Young women of the 21st century will read about a sick, spiteful, unattractive forty-year-old man in 19th-century Russia and say, “this is literally me”.

Not to be a Frankenstein apologist but if it were a choice between actually writing my essays for my degree and creating life in an act of hubris against God frankly my procrastination skills are incredibly powerful

i don’t want a job i want to read good books and drink good coffee and get kissed on the neck

no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions".

mary shelley writing about a monster rejected and abandoned by its creator and dedicating it to her own father i need to smoke a blunt with her i need to give her head

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

"If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing"

~ Unknown

*violently sobbing* I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER

what they dont tell you about growing up as a very lonely little girl is that you grow up and still a part of you remains that very lonely little girl

anyone who's more of a hater than me is a mentally disturbed freak who deserves to be put down and anyone who's less of a hater than me is a naive moron who will be eaten alive by the wolves. anyone who's as much of a hater as me is my lover

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

perpetually torn between:

taking classic literature seriously and over analysing every detail so that I can deeply understand themes, motifs and references and absorb every poetic quote into my being OR treating classics as if they were just silly little stories about silly little gay people doing the most weird, unhinged and out of context shit ever (which they are)

fun reminder that francis eats maraschino cherries out of the jar when he's drunk and depressed, and when charles is depressed he drinks floats which usually have a cherry on top.

my whole life has been a play of obsessions and distractions. to be obsessed with something so it distracts me from the reality, to find another distraction cuz the obsession is destroying me.

romanticizing studying as to avoid a breakdown

what do you mean i can’t read every book, study every academic subject, taste every food, live in every city in every country, visit every museum, listen to every single song ever produced, learn every language, meet every interesting person, memorize every particle of knowledge to ever exist ???

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves. By each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look. Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss. The brave man with a sword"

-Oscar Wilde

people think i’m cool cuz i act smart and mature until they realize that i’m just some overdramatic pampered brat

— Clementine Von Radics, from Courtney Love Prays to Oregon (via lunamonchtuna)

well, hes a fine young man. if you overlook the atrocities

in pinterest we trust

girls live in a world where they are forced to work and there is no time to read every second of the day and a beverage does not cost one dollar. and they wonder why we’re insane

horror of being perceived vs desire to be adored

why cant i be a 20th century schoolboy studying shakespeare with his group of morally grey friends

where am i gonna get academic validation after i’m done with school