“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” — J. R. R. Tolkien (via kdhume)
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away; but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.” — Walden by Henry David Thoreau (via quote-book)
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“You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you’re a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And, alas, it’s seldom successful.” — Ralph Ellison (via pajamaipgo)
“And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.” — Ralph Ellison (via apt-essere)
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Ophelia’s last stand
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