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Σε ποιόν ανήκει η Κέρκυρα

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Corfu, Greece (by Saxon Sky)

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John Singer Sargent, series: Corfu (c.1909)

A Garden in Corfu | Lights and Shadows | The Terrace | Oranges at Corfu

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“I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or café will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It’s already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”

— Iris Murdoch, from Under the Net

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i keep memories of you so gently, like pressed flowers in notebooks.

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learning how to take a step back and go, “am I trying to push people away right now? why am I sabotaging my connections with people? what’s really going on here?”

there are genuine reasons to end friendships. there are genuine reasons to take a step back from your social life. but cutting ties because you’re feeling lost and alone and undeserving of those relationships… that’s something you’ll regret later.

take a step back. take a deep breath. take some time out. and come back to it when your head is a little more clear

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Studio Ghibli + Holding Hands

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The thing is, if you never go anywhere and never talk to anyone and never reach out to new people and never text first because you have convinced yourself you're unlovable, then your loneliness will become a self-fulfilling prophecy - and that's NOT because you're actually inherently unlovable...

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hey. it’s ok to miss them. they were a big part of your life, and you had some good times. times when you were happy. it’s ok to miss that, to miss the good things, the fun things. knowing you deserve better doesn’t mean you’re not going to miss them. It’s ok. what’s not ok is how they treated you. remember that.

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“We were just two souls that were once so interconnected that it was hard to tell the difference, but now we are strangers. Isn’t it sad how quickly that happens? How you can go from talking to someone every day to never again? From knowing every inch of their life, celebrating their successes, and wallowing in their failures with them…to nothing?” - K.A. Knight

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Eddie Murphy & Julia Louis Dreyfus before “You People”

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