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i have to tell you by Dorothea Grossman

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Li Shangyin (tr. Arthur Sze)

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Tao Qian (tr. Arthur Sze)

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For You

by Lawrence Raab

I don’t want to say anything about how dark it is right now, how quiet. Those yellow lanterns among the trees, cars on the road beyond the forest, I have nothing to say about them. And there’s half a moon as well that I don’t want to talk about, like those slow clouds edged with silver, or the few unassembled stars. There’s more to all of that than this, of course, and you would know it better than most, better I mean than any other, which is only to say I had always intended finding you here where I could tell you exactly what I wanted to say as if I had nothing to say to anyone but you.

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to William Walton featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

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Joy Sullivan, “Sockeye”, Instructions for Traveling West

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sapiens: a brief history of humankind

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headline from the nature briefing today / Map of the World, seperis

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dean winchester.

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“ rot “ — filet crochet by me

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key pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs! like or reblog to use, don't repost as your own please.

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the vorpal blade

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Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa

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What does love mean to you?

Hayao Miyazaki said that love is two people inspiring each other to live. And to live doesn’t just mean to be alive. Living involves finding beauty in the simple moments of being. So to inspire someone to be in awe of the simplicity of living. And I don't think I could articulate it any better than that.

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anne carson interviewed by kate kellaway for the guardian