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“What dead souls lie under your sunken tired eyes? What true selves have you let die within yourself?”
— Carl Jung
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“I have my own bitterness, my own sea, […]”
— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “CXIII” published posthumously in Autumn Melancholy
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Oh Allah, when our days are filled with sadness, fill our hearts with gratitude.
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caneviim · 4 days
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‏أمضيتُ كل حياتي وأنا أحاول، أحاول من أجل أن لا أفقد أملي الأخير
I've spent all my life trying, trying not to lose my last hope.
- Mahmoud Darwish.
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caneviim · 6 days
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"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)
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caneviim · 7 days
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“[…] between your cold hands / the world flames.”
— Octavio Paz, from “Autumn”, The Poems of Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger
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“She is dreaming a dream of flight, / a disappearance so perfect / that we suspect nothing.”
— Lisel Mueller, from The Need to Hold Still: Poems; “The Escape”
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“Then I started slipping out of the world / and I kept on slipping.”
— Camille Norton, Corruption: Poems; “The Bardo of the Mind in Contemplation”
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caneviim · 10 days
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“She seemed as detached from herself as from everyone else.”
— Stephen Spender, on Virginia Woolf 
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Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927
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caneviim · 11 days
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“One day I said to myself — deep down inside my soul I said — so very soft that even God himself could barely hear — One day I said to myself that I was determined to get my share of happiness.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Death of Tintagiles (tr. by David Willinger and Daniel Gerould), 1894
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“Gently, gently make room for happiness at last.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)
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Molly McCully Brown, from Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays
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“I wait all day for the silence of the night.”
— Savannah Black (via wnq-writers)
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caneviim · 22 days
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“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”
— Richard Brostoff, from “Grief,” A Few Forms of Love (Finishing LIne Press, 2012)(via soracities)
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