Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

— Joyce Carol Oates (via topographia)

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You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.

— Warsan Shire (via modernise)

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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson (via somebody-else)

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Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy (via imreadingtolstoi)

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