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I feel surrounded by passionless people.

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thinking abt that one quote that’s like “you are a language i am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read” like how soul crushing is that… what the hell

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I‘m obsessed with details, I wanna know everything about you

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Calcedonio Reina (1842-1911, Italian) ~ Amore e Morte, 1881

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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

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Marilyn Monroe during the filming of ‘The Seven Year Itch’, 1954.

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“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951