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Claudia Rankine, from her book titled Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

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When you care too much what someone thinks about you you stop being the good sort of curious…the tension of over caring contorts you into such a stiff shape. You don’t mentally stretch out or notice things or play as much…. Stuck in the bondage of personality that you think might earn their love. It’s impossible for them to see you, and you’re so into your role which for whom they are also a character. So you don’t see them either. Everybody loses!

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so soft it hurts

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I am good. I am loved.

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to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

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I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (…) But warm, eager, living life—to be rooted in life—to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less.

Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

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Ophelia, 1872 - oil on canvas

— Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (France, 1823–1887)

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Vicente Cebollo Peinado

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Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

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anhedonia

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Daisy 🖤

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

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— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025