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“Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?”

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952

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“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939

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i hope that when i die there will be an apartment with everyone i’ve ever loved in it and we are together always

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"you're really gonna make it all about love?" someone has to!!

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― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

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does anyone feel the layer of plexiglass between themselves and the rest of the world or is that just a me thing

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Literally what did olivia laing say about loneliness leading to more loneliness. Loneliness being so repulsive that people sense it from you and stay away. Crazy crazy

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a normal and average sunday consists of lying on the ground thinking about how much I'd like to go back and do everything again because this time I'd do everything right

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we used to get prescribed a summer on the seaside. now we just get told to go touch grass. the economy is in shambles

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#leonard cohen

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the sensual world. louise glück

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warm orange windows and blue night in the background save me. save me warm orange windows and blue night

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

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I remember once sort of sitting down and thinking, ‘I am terribly depressed and this can not go on…’ and then I thought, ‘Well, you can do two things. You can kill yourself or you can get interested in absolutely everything.’ I read the newspaper every day; I read scientific books and geographical books and historical books and books in other languages, as well as the books that professionally I had to read, and suddenly the world became wonderful. 

AS Byatt, 1936-2023 (x)

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snoopy reads mary oliver!!

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#early summers

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#kafka