When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.
Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries
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The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis
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If you're not clingy you're not for me I need all that
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I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
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I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
Voltaire, Candide
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I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.
Atticus
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Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries
[Text ID: “What kills live? Only this: neglect. I knew I was neglecting myself.”]
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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}
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I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them
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