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The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
“I prefer to think of it, he had said, as redistribution of matter.”
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly the ones i did not.”
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
Totally didn't make this like a year ago but posting it just now what definitely nott
Spring with the burn of the Sun that gets lost in the wintry winds of the shade, the bloom of a million flowers from the cracked earth of the desolate days of the past, the renewal of life and spirit, the wandering feet changing paths enchanted by the bounty of nature, the hope that germinates from the ruins of past, the crunch of fallen yellow leaves beneath my boots, the green of budding leaves that dominate the pupil of the eye, the time for choosing between cold coffee (probable cold and cough) and hot lemon tea (probable burn of the throat), the joys of laying on the lawn with grass sticking to hoddies that would bid farewell soon (unless you're weird enough to wear 'em in summer cause HOODIES duh), the lazy lay in sun cause cats do have a lot in common with humans...
Autumn with falling leaves; setting suns; warm cardigans; steaming hot coffee that scaldes your tongue with the first sip; tea that reminds you of a lineage of women before you, who have sipped the same recipe, over, and over again, for comfort; baking food for yourself, and sharing it with others; running hands on the soft blanket that reminds you so much of a past that doesn't exist anymore, but was dear to your heart; Folklore and Evermore cause what's fall without TS records; looking at cats and wishing you'd be born as one if there do be a next life, and and and...
Dark academia moodboard set in Gujarat
//I've grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the only thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.//
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray - O.Wilde
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desi dark academia set in south india
"girlhood was as ephemeral as a drop of water on a lily pad." // chitra banerjee divakaruni, the forest of enchantments
dark academia moodboard set in uttar pradesh, india
"in the softened light i too am able to look at the taj without screwing up my eyes. as the boy said, it does not change. therein lies beauty." // ruskin bond, footloose in agra
Dark academia moodboard set in Madurai,Tamilnadu
//I want to be a mystery, yet be known.I want to be together, yet alone is too much to ask, to be famous yet unknown? To be a wanderer, yet have a home?//
-Kara Douglas
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Dark academia moodboard set in Pune
//Sometimes in the evening, around twilight, I'm unable to hold back my tears. But then I pull myself together again.//
-Nikos Kazantzakis, Letter to Galateia Kazantzaki wr. c. July,1922
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Credit: autumnslittlesister
Yes I have a crush on a barista from the coffeshop near my dorm yes I go there everyday trying to figure out his shifts yes he's been out for a week yes I am miserable
What if we unexpectedly kissed on the stage while performing King Lear before I confessed to the crime you'd committed and went to jail comparing our story to Romeo and Juliette?... Jk.. Unless?..
Oliver, the dysfunctional bisexual
When people talk about dark academia movies they always mention Kill Your Darlings or The Dead Poets Society - i. e. films about men asserting themselves through art and homoerotic subtext between friends.
But I never hear about Mona Lisa Smile. It is a movie that just exudes da vibes + it has complex female characters in an academic setting + and it discusses the inherent mysoginy of the time.
Really, it is a wonderful movie and you're all sleeping on it