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Honoring the dying tradition of beautiful prose. Follow me on IG: https://t.co/eRZYTh8lGb

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Milan Kundera 🔥
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John Stuart Mill. Don't let the world choose your life.
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RT @kukukadoo: the perfect epigraph doesn’t ex—
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Emily Dickinson.
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Susan Sontag.
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Nabokov.
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Elizabeth Bishop, on what is too often an unfortunate but necessary initiatory experience into life.
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F Scott Fitzgerald capturing what almost every famous and/or hyper-successful person relays feeling and no one listens: that dream-attainment won't make you happy for more than a fleeting second. None of that will fix you. None of it will even give you any real answers.
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Odysseus (Homer) on endurance.
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Joseph Campbell 🔥
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Few people could sling those sentences like Nabokov. "I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable." Incredible.
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Tennessee Williams 🔥
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Dante, goddamn.
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Martha Gellhorn. Relatable.
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Tennessee Williams on why you must "Run toward life fulsomely and freely."
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From the Buddha
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Peter Jackson's (rather than Tolkien's) words here, but profoundly beautiful, insightful, and essential to remember nonetheless.
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Wendell Berry describes a bird landing on his porch. "My mind became beautiful by the sight of him." Too beautiful.
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A haiku from Kobayashi Issa (writing 300 years ago lol). People have always felt like we feel now. Transcendence is all around us.
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Bernard Malamud. "We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies." 🔥
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