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I'm searching for a phrase that will release everything that's pent up in me.

- Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion, Letters of Anaïs Nin bad Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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I didn't know how to belong.

Longing? Yes.

Belonging? No.

-Jeannette Winterson

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Outside the window sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I'm human.

- Wang Xiaoni, White Moon

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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

- Richard Siken, Crush

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I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person.

- Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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I am a child with an old soul.

I see magic in everything, but at the same time, everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.

- Juansen Dizon

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When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

-Kahlil Gibran

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When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

-Kahlil Gibran

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You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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forever an amy dunne apologist

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I am not deserving, yet Allāh’s blessings and mercy towards me are ineffable…

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Urgency, there was so much urgency － to change, to escape the past.

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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In people's lives I want to be that which does not hurt.

Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Time, 14 June 1926, from Letters: Summer 1926

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I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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We ought to read only the kind of book that wound and stab us.

If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

-Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak

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I fear that I will be ripped open and found unsightly.

- Anne Sexton, A Self-Potrait in Letters

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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

- Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless