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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives

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~ Augusto Cury

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~ Augusto Cury

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sometimes it’s better refrain from deep introspection and allow yourself to just be.

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mazelle at the gtco 2023 shot by victor edeh ౨ৎ

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me when I find something that I wrote when I was having a mental breakdown

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let's play a game it's called how long can i pretend i don't have basic needs and human emotions

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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

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It took me a very long time to realize that I had been in a state of mourning after my friend and I stopped talking to each other. This beautiful and heartbreaking essay on the art of loving and losing female friends was a much-needed meditation, and I wanted to share it with you, too. 

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the white western world believes the famine and death of black and brown people is integral and natural to our existence and that is why there is such little care and disregard and eagerness to portray palestine and sudan as anything but genocide

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girls will be like hm this song reminds me of the most tragic thing that has happened to me I think I'll listen to it on loop

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that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

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Looking out the window and seeing a little bird can honestly be so life changing

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