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Thread; Quotes from The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"'Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?' he said. 'It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?"
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Notes 🌙
Thread; Quotes from The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.'"
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Notes 🌙
Thread; Quotes from The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"'Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone – was it van Gogh? – said that orange is the color of insanity. Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.'"
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Forwarded from 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐀 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐧 𝐌𝐞 🌙
لقد كانت "القهوة" اسمًا على الخمر منذ عصر الأمويين والعباسيين "القهوة: الخمر، سُميت بذلك لأنها تُقهي شاربها عن الطعام أي تُذهب بشهوته".
"أُنادي الرَسمَ لَو مَلَكَ الجَوابا
وَأُجزيهِ بِدَمعِيَ لَو أَثابا
وَقَلَّ لِحَقِّهِ العَبَراتُ تَجري
وَإِن كانَت سَوادَ القَلبِ ذابا
سَبَقنَ مُقَبِّلاتِ التُربِ عَنّي
وَأَدَّينَ التَحِيَّةَ وَالخِطابا"
- أحمد شوقي
وَأُجزيهِ بِدَمعِيَ لَو أَثابا
وَقَلَّ لِحَقِّهِ العَبَراتُ تَجري
وَإِن كانَت سَوادَ القَلبِ ذابا
سَبَقنَ مُقَبِّلاتِ التُربِ عَنّي
وَأَدَّينَ التَحِيَّةَ وَالخِطابا"
- أحمد شوقي
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