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gennsoup · 20 hours

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"You certainly don't sound as if you've been in love. You tell me to give up. But that's no longer in my power."

Menander, The Dyskolos

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gennsoup · 2 days

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A woman is a turtle, a fish, a canoe. A woman is an island. A woman is the only thing between me and drowning.

Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tahou

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gennsoup · 3 days

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Strange . . . that fire hurts to the touch. Fire gives light. Shouldn’t the darkness hurt instead? Hell ought to be pure darkness. Nothingness.

Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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gennsoup · 4 days

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Worse Even than your maddening Song, your silence.

Sylvia Plath, Lorelei

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gennsoup · 5 days

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"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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gennsoup · 6 days

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Fields of lavender surround the cloister-- armies of bees and the young spring buzz above them, and, slowly, golden heedfulness is born.

Adam Zagajewski, Sénanque

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gennsoup · 7 days

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Too much light will blind you and too much water will drown you. It is a danger to accept anything real from another person, to know something of them. A person has to be careful about the voices they listen to, the faces they let themselves see.

Catherine Lacey, Pew

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gennsoup · 8 days

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My brain's wired this way--fleeting happiness and snagging anxiety.

Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting

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gennsoup · 9 days

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"People underestimate the freckled."

Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird

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gennsoup · 10 days

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One must name cats, people, whoever comes close, even though they carry their real names hidden inside them.

Keri Hulme, The Bone People

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gennsoup · 11 days

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Spoons, however: there are no spoons in Nature, or not on animals. We imitate ourselves. Here, let me help you: two cupped hands.

Margaret Atwood, Table Settings

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gennsoup · 12 days

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"You could come to see me in my dreams and comfort me. For they who love find a time's sweetness in the visions of night."

Euripides, Alcestis

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gennsoup · 13 days

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Words strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them.

T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

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gennsoup · 14 days

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"So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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gennsoup · 15 days

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"Humans have vast, ambitious notions of how to harness the universe for their own purposes. But what if the bones of other creatures have lives that assert themselves in extraordinary ways? What if they carry wisdom beyond human beings' narrow conceptions of what is acceptable?"

Lydia Kwa, Oracle Bone

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gennsoup · 16 days

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"War's a banker, flesh his gold."

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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gennsoup · 17 days

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During the rainstorms of April the oyster rises from the sea and opens its shell-- rain enters it-- when it sinks the raindrops become the pearl.

Anne Sexton, The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements

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