artofdyingslowly

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do you ever hear someone playing a piano nearby and you just stop and close your eyes and take a deep breath and realize that maybe life is beautiful after all and everything is gonna be okay and there is so much left to live for

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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I hope you get everything you wanted, and I hope I never hear a thing about it

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ex best friends are just. i will never love anyone the way i loved you. you hurt me so much in a way only you could. i still think about you on your birthday and wish i could be there celebrating with you. i hate that things ended the way they did. i don’t think anyone will ever understand me like you did. i miss our inside jokes. i’ll never forget you and i wish all of the dreams we talked about come true for you. i hope i never hear anything about it. i miss you. i never want to see you again.

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does violence have to be the last resort. can’t it be like the third

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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

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the naomi letters, rachel minnies // the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid

mark of athena, rick riordan // Elizabeth Gilbert //Orestes, Euripides // dancing with our hands tied, taylor swift // the song of achilles, madeline miller

of knowing (and loving anyways)

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"If you smile too much you'll get laugh lines!!!!!" what a horrible curse, to be afraid of having happiness permanently placed onto your body

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i want to personally thank etc for being there for me when i don't feel like listing more things

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LITERALLY kindness is hard it’s not easy to think of others and be there for them for nothing in return. it’s intentional and it takes effort. it’s so difficult but you do it anyways and that’s what makes it kind

oh my GODDDDDDDD i cannot even begin to explain how much i hate the whole "being nice costs $0" narrative. it takes so much to be nice & kind. it takes so much to sacrifice your sleep because your friend needs to rant when you know you have to wake up early tomorrow. it takes so much to risk getting late to an appointment bcs a stranger on the way needs your help. it takes so much to help your co worker through their work because you know they are not in a good place right. its not being kind because. its being kind Despite. hope that helps ❤️❤️

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i don’t even feel real rn i’m just a ball of anxiety with a pulse

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okay fine i believe in love again

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okay but when Madeline Miller said “I would know him in death, at the end of the world” and when she said “when he died, all thing soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him” and when she said “i am made of memories” and when she said “i feel like i could eat the world raw” and when she said “he is half my soul, as the poets say” and when she said “this and this and this” and when-

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{ Mahmoud Darwish/ Virginia Woolf/ Edgar Allan Poe, from a Letter to Helen Whitman, "The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman"/ Albert Camus, The Possessed (transl. By O'Brien)/ Emily Dickinson/ Anton Chekhov, The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov "The Two Volodyas"/ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes/ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women/ Yann Martel, Life of Pi/ Cameron Awkward-Rich, Meditations in an Emergency/ De profundis/ Oscar Wilde}

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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous