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Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one’s parents giving it into one’s hands, this life, to be lived to the end.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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-Patricia Smith

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a twitter thread that actually killed me

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The beauty of painted murals

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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-Landscape at Port-Villez-

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— A. Y.

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~ Augusto Cury

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While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798

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being with you, the way you treat my body, it changes me in a way i can’t properly explain. the way you are makes me feel like i’m strong enough to reclaim the parts of me that have felt so broken for so long. like i can find a path back to loving myself.

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“What we want in love is release from our beliefs, not confirmation in them. That is where the ‘courage of love’ comes in – to have the courage to commit yourself to something you don’t believe, because it is what – for the moment, anyway – thrills you by its audacity.”

— Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica

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@lovesdaya

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do you even realize i've written poetry about you?

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I wished for the days to be more like the nights.

Exciting, filled with endless possibilities,

colder. I hate the heat.

But warmth;

I long for the warmth no day or night could provide.

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“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Nice Quiet Place

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stained glass window. (via)