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>Farewell happy fields, where joy forever dwells

>> No.22515945

>>22515910
>There is always hope, endless hope, but not for us

>> No.22515974

>>22515910
>and chuck I said fuck I will suck!

>> No.22515991

>>22515910
>*that* feeling
Which feeling?

>> No.22516061

>>22515910
>I'm not a magnet for monsters

>> No.22516105
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>>22515910
>I've done more in dreams than Napoleon.
>I've held more humanities against my hypothetical breast than Christ.
>I've secretly invented philosophies such as >Kant never wrote.
>But I am, and perhaps will always be, the man in the garret,
>Even though I don't live in one.
>I'll always be the one who wasn't born for that;
>I'll always be merely the one who had qualities;

>> No.22516258

>>22515910
>For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars, until I die.

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>>22516105
more like Feelssoa am I right?

>> No.22516310

>>22515945
>I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
>I do not think that they will sing for me.

>> No.22516338

>>22516310
>I should have been a pair of ragged claws
>Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
Eliot's really good for that feeling of isolation and despair.

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>''It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

Imagine writing a book with the greatest intro line AND the greatest ending line.

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>>22515910
>I have wasted my life.

James Wright

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>Well, come on! Look, we shall go now hand in hand.
>And eternally, like this, all our lives hand in hand!

>> No.22516766

>>22515910
>Lines that give you *that* feeling
Speed reading

>> No.22516776

>>22515910
>The halls were empty. There were distant raised voices in the house, distant shouting, but I didn't see anyone else. And Chihirae's room was empty. Barren. Clothes: gone. Books and papers and pens and her trinkets on the shelves, all gone.

>> No.22517694

>>22516776
Source?

>> No.22517699

>>22515991
learn to infer from context
>pic related
>emotions that the example quote evokes

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>You don't finish the bottle, the bottle finishes you.
It seemed like a trite witticism when I first read it all those years ago, not so much since I learned to drink. The bottle will finish me.

>> No.22517748

>>22517694
It's from one of the Life of Riley books, an obscure web-published novel series that is occasionally skilled here.
First book is called light on shattered water and was originally distributed as raw text files in the 90s

>> No.22517749

>>22517748
*shilled

>> No.22517750

>>22517748
Right coming for you now

Say ooo or something