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“Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!”

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A collection of poems that delve into the darker aspects of human nature, including sin, vice, and the complexities of the human experience. more

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire, a renowned French poet and literary critic, was born on April 9, 1821, and died on August 31, 1867. His poetry is known for its unique symbolism and has had a profound impact on modern literature. more

“She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.”

Years Class Week Periods Ten Hot Relief Confession Drs Headache Years Of Marriage

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”

School America Stars White Couple High School Fixed Shifting Young Love Juliet Firmament

Book:Carrie

Source: Carrie

“Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme”

Children Sometimes Feelings Love Is Rhyme Wrong Time Stranded

Author:Bil Keane

“She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.”

Ifs World Moments Hands Would Be Sound Memories Forever Minutes Scene Band Silent Smell Ease Theme Locked Doubted

Author:Stephen King

“As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”

Book Hours Air Paper Smell Versions Afternoon Sunlight Pale Hung Shelves Ink Shiver Gilded

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die.”

Life Is Dies Walkers

Author:Katsura Hoshino

“You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.”

Singers Performers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Luke Bryan

“If you would rise, do so alone.”

Ifs

Author:Mercedes Lackey

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