I don’t believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.
- Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”

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clematispassiflora:

I just want to go to the forest and look at stars and be kissed, and maybe smoke some.

I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign, and if the world were just me, I would sunder myself apart, burst into tiny pieces, and disappear. How can there be moments when I feel as if I understand it all?
- Emil Cioran, from On The Heights Of Despair (via violentwavesofemotion)
Anyone who unveiled to us the nature of the world would produce for all of us the most unpleasant disappointment. It is not the world as thing in itself, it is the world as idea (as error) that is so full of significance, profound, marvellous, and bearing in its womb all happiness and unhappiness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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