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How I feel autumn's ache.
Virginia Woolf
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You have always approached everything terrible trustfully. You have wanted to pet every monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden.
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I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
Junot Diaz
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can see that I have become so candid that I can endure only human relationships which are absolutely genuine. I avoid half-friendships...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have found an endless comfort in hiding.
Sarah Jean Alexander
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I also know the way the old life haunts the new.
Mary Oliver
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I am not well. I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice.
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I'm a master at speaking silently, all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Meek One.
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You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn't live.
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey.
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You will ask for a match and I will give you a wildfire. I don't know how to love small.
Erin Van Vuren
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Now, every time I witness a strong person, I want to know: What dark did you conquer in your story? Mountains do not rise without earthquakes.
Katherine MacKenett
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Her soul was too deep to explore by those who always swam in the shallow end.
A. J. Lawless
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