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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

—Anaïs Nin (via dulcetdecember)

(via backseatbanter)

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

—Virginia Woolf, from Orlando (via violentwavesofemotion)

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

—Walt Whitman, from The Complete Works (via violentwavesofemotion)