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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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the archive of almosts.

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"Sometimes, you just need to disconnect. The world will still be there when you return."

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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Moodboard

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to be a star you must burn

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“In all things, deceit arrives first, dragging fools behind it in endless vulgarity. Truth is always late, last to arrive, limping along with time.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith

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“In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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the lover’s almanac : part one.

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“She couldn’t hold so much life, light and joy without also containing their opposites.”

— Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise

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You'll stop fighting the waves when you realise you're the ocean.

J. Mike Fields

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You must allow yourself to outgrow and depart from certain eras of your life with a gentle sort of ruthlessness.

Katy Maxwell

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If I disappear, know that I’m okay.

Unknown

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Love always hurts.