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"Our eyes are full of terrible confessions."

- Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones.

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"Rich in life, because all the love I once gave you is now ink to my poems."

Abhilasha.

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"What began as love and hope is now just 'survival'."

Abhilasha.

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"I have a silly desire to cry, but that's the price of life."

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, December 31, 1948

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"My heart, my heart betrayed me."

Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; "A Heart Beneath a Cassock,"

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"Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want."

-Fernando Pessoa

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"Love has turned on me /and now I am its liar"

-Elaine Kahn, "ROMANCE,” Romance or the End: Poems

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I am forever chained to myself; that's what I am, and that's what I must try to live with.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. November 1912

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"May, June, July — months spent collecting words to name all this grief."

Abhilasha.

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“Through all the lies I tell my mind to keep myself sane, and through the limits on my freedom, my poems are born.”

Abhilasha.

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"I barely knew I had skin before I met you."

-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests, 2014