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“This year taught me that my loneliness has more to do with myself than anyone else. The loneliest I will ever be is when I do not have the strength to love myself.”

— Marianna Paige

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EUPHORIA 2x07 The Theater and It’s Double (2022) René Magritte Not to Be Reproduced (1937)

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ZENDAYA as RUE BENNETT EUPHORIA | S02E07, The Theatre and Its Double

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EUPHORIA S02e04 | “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can

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via weheartit

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“Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.”

— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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Mary Oliver, What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems

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When Death Comes

by Mary Oliver

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

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*a bisexual awakening*

Anna Karenina (2012) // Pride and Prejudice (2005) // Atonement (2007) // Colette (2018)

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Bell Hooks on Working class men

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He is gay honey

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this picture can be so therapeutic-

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#tell me you didn’t have the same reaction

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― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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All time ever does is pass

and all you ever do is remember.

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a little bit of reassurance here and there goes a long way