J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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hopelessly devoted to my obsessions
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.
Mary Ruefle in Madness, Rack, & Honey (via phantasmaphile)
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Willful self-deception IIl by Guy Denning
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Rembrandt, Portret van Rembrandts zoon,Titus als monnik
(detail). 1660
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Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Submitted by ifweshadows.
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (via fuckyeahexistentialism)