Dark Academism - Blog Posts
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus ☕️🌙
(Art: Greg Mort, “Sun, Moon and Stars,” 1999)
Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
-William Napier
forever in love
with your dark night
just another thursday: studies, readings & coffee
days filled with reading 💭
happy september to everyone! 🍂☕️
sneak peek of my bookshelf
the one with the brains
[top right picture belongs to @sadcypher]
my room perpetually smells like coffee now
There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.
Lisa Schroeder, My Secret Guide to Paris
A tiny devil vitrified in a prism of glass. In the 18th century, the Imperial Treasury of Vienna attested that this was a real demon which had been trapped in glass during an exorcism in Germany a century earlier. From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.
van gogh's starry night as a kindle cover
ordered a customizable spotify plaque for more dark academia vibes
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
Alexis Carrel
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
"Christmas is a magical moment of glory; the birth of humanity."
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
Oscar Wilde
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
Voltaire
The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper
Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.
painting and details of The Roses of Heliogabalus // by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
i found a few collins classics in the bookstore and i really wanted to buy Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species but i decided to save it for another time it was also hardbound and therefore very expensive huhu.
penguin classics are unfortunately far out of my budget but collins classics are a great replacement for them because they're way cheaper :> i'm going to be super busy reading all of them during christmas break.
while at the bookstore, there were two girls beside me that were talking about the classics in the bookshelf in front of us. it's really nice to see that more people are appreciating classic literature, especially in our country where it's not really popular and well-known, not like other western countries.
anyways, here are the books i bought from the bookstore. hopefully, my relatives leave me alone while i'm reading :>
Morning Star (Lucifer) // by Paul Fryer at Holy Trinity Church
one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.
~ Whitney Hanson
Why is my life all dark and no academia
Vivamus, moriendum est.
Translation: Let us live, since we must die.