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i wanna go back to the start and experience feelings again perfectly and be held by the right hands and hug the younger me tight and kiss her goodnight because she has been too brave

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i got cursed like Eve got bitten

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“There is only one question: how to love this world.”

— Mary Oliver, from House of Light; “Spring” (via bellsofatlantis)

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"You can decorate absence however you want, but you're still gonna feel what's missing."

- Siobhan Vivian

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“I believe that much unseen is also here.”

— Walt Whitman, excerpt from “Song of the Open Road” + (via mythologyofblue)

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“Sometimes when one wakes up in the morning one thinks that truth is right next to the bed, like an open grave with a few wilted flowers, ready to receive.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)

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Taylor Swift - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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— Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), from Olivia.

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Mary Oliver, “Don't Hesitate.” Devotions

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loml - taylor swift

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

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when you feel bone deep sentiments towards a person vs their feelings being just on the surface level. like that shit HURTS

#personal

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“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

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“I have broken every rule I ever set for myself. And now I am busy, so busy, day and night, ruining my life.”

— Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

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Simone Weil on projection and how to lose your object with grace. From “Void and Compensation”