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“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.”

— Max Brooks

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“Love never dies of a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness, errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds. It dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never of a natural death.”

— Anais Nin

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— November 22, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

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“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.”

— Law of Attraction

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You can do amazing things with words. They help to crystallize the truth.

– J. G. Ballard, from “The Sound-Sweep,” The Complete Stories (Norton, 2010)

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literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

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May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems

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“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.”

— Courtney C. Stevens; The Lies About Truth

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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“Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love you hurt you. Don’t confuse the two.”

— Unknown

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How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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"Write to me, always

Even if it is little

Just don't stop"

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— November 10, 1917 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh

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“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

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“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.”

— Book of serenity

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“Every word has consequences, every silence too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre