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i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

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"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

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“Her skin was as luminous as the finest sea shells, with a pale pink glow to it.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977

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Every Blair Waldorf outfit: 4x21

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Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; “Hymn to Beauty”

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

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𝐵𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝓊𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓉 ౨ৎ

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u ever look at the mirror and realize you're looking at a Woman? I used to be just a girl

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"Stay at home girlfriend" You are a human pet to him, a cat he can fuck, I never see tiktok/youtube stay at home girlfriends writing novel, traveling and playing video games or any fun exciting leisure activities you can do without a job. They aren't taking advantage of these rich loser men, they are all cooking instagramable green meals, cleaning, exercising on treadmills like hamsters and performing lengthy boring beauty rituals. Girl you have a wealthy benefactor and you are unemployed, become obsessed with videogames, make a indie film on his dime, write a genius manifesto, and gain 50 pounds and see if he won't kick you out. He wants your life empty and curated around him. Soon you'll started being driven mad by that pesky yellow wallpaper.

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“Maybe I’ve wanted you for all these years. I couldn’t call it by name before, but maybe it’s been there since I first knew you. I never felt that way about anybody but you. I’ve never loved a man. I never knew why before. Maybe it’s that.”

The Children’s Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

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the self care industry will sell you face masks and teas and whatnot so i'm here to remind you not to forget the most important self care activity which is masturbation

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The Model Traitor | Eloise Corselette • in champagne crêpe silk satin + metallic gold Chantilly lace of the House of Solstiss

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[I] hung my heart on a necklace, tears for its pearls...

Carol Ann Duffy, “Presents” from Rapture

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#I'm going through a friendship breakup and it literally feels like it #also I had my ed under control for like 6 years and now my mind is like... let's bring that back

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you can hate yourself all you want but the world is beautiful and it welcomes you

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Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. January 1921 in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923