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All you who are in love

Aye and cannot it remove

I pity the pain that you endure.

For experience lets me know

That your hearts are filled with woe

It's a woe that no Mortal can cure

- The Curragh of Kildare-

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My love, fond and true,

What else could I do--

But sheild you from wind and from weather?

When the shots fall like hail,

They us both shall assail--

And mayhap we shall die together.

-Ned of the Hill-

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He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss.

Fly, you fools! he cried, and was gone.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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You don’t truly understand love until you’ve watched it rot—until you’ve seen it go from something sacred to something sharp, from warmth to cold indifference, from everything to nothing.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Howl”

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Atticus, from a poem featured in The Dark Between Stars: Poems published in 2018

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf,”

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— Lina A.

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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— Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren c. November 1949