Have you ever written something so beautiful and eloquent and perfect that you nearly make yourself cry?
And then you look at it when it’s not 1:30 AM, and curse yourself for ever having fingers.
(via its-a-writer-thing)
Never take me to bookstores or libraries, I can be next to you one minute and gone the next.
Admont Abbey Library
Wow! More photos of this library here.
I’ve been here! It’s GORGEOUS. I tried to keep myself from taking too many pictures.
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