Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.

— THE AWAKENING, KATE CHOPIN. (via thebookthieves)

aseaofquotes: Anne Fortier, Juliet
I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping.

— Rumi  (via piteux)

(Source: larmoyante, via white--lie)

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

— Richard Dawkins (via adreamoftrains)

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Plans - Birds of Tokyo

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

— Oscar Wilde (via 4mbivalent)