The Girl Is Gone

'we live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality'
Iris Murdoch.

one always reveres what one’s bound to destroy. 

Rapture Rapes the Muses- Of Montreal


Quote from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce on one of the walls of the Dun Laoghaire Baths.

Quote from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce on one of the walls of the Dun Laoghaire Baths.

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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. - Ernest Hemingway 

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. - Ernest Hemingway 



“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, T.S. Eliot

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oh.

In the event of making myself some porridge, I have managed to forget everything I revised about Fascist Italy this morning. Albeit, this is not much, I have a sneaking suspicion it would have come in handy for tomorrow’s exam. 

Thus I decided to drink loose tea from a china cup and hope my memory can relay more about Mussolini other than ‘he was a very bad man.’ 

Leavers Dinner, 2012. Makes me a little sad that this is the end of school.

Leavers Dinner, 2012. Makes me a little sad that this is the end of school.

Ben Howard, Video Games cover. 

think i am in love with his voice, if that’s possible.

Maggi Hambling, Wave

Maggi Hambling, Wave

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bookmania:

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