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my ability to be scared despite literally nothing happening knows no bounds

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(yearns for a past that does not exist) (yearns for a past that does not exist) (yearns for a past that does not exist) (yearns for a past that does not exist) (yearns for a past that does not exist)

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we’re gonna be ok btw

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Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

Text ID: I was no one, I had neither name nor face. Moving through August, I was: nothing.

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oh to rip and tear and shred and bite and run and punch and kick and snarl and scream and scratch and

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we’re gonna be ok btw

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bloodlust for peaches and water melon. figs and cherry tomatoes and crisp tall glass of cold tap water baby i live forever today

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they should invent a profound love between two people that doesnt involve the power and chance of doing profound hurt

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moving far away to a sunny place.

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“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

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(gripping bathroom sink) we are all going forward none of us are going back we are all going forward none of us are going back we are all going forward none of us are going back we are all going forward none of us are going back we are all going forward none of us are g

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in case anyone else needs to hear this it’s ok to be more serious. i don’t just mean ‘it’s ok to be serious sometimes’ i mean in general. not everyone has to be funny. it doesn’t have to mean you’re sad or unlikeable. you can just be serious and genuine most of the time and that’s great. i personally think that we’re too focused on ‘funny’ as the primary carrier of likeability right now. i often feel starved for serious conversation, for serious spaces, for a feeling of gravity. you don’t have make good jokes to give people a good time. i say, goof only as the spirit moves you, & don’t worry about it. 

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— Clarice Lispector, from “The Hour of the Star.”

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