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If We Must Die, Claude McKay

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“Hold your head up high. You’re doing well, I am proud of you.”

— Unknown

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Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

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“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Theodore Isaac

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“And it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. That a creature like you exists in my world.”

— Nicole Torres

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“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”

— Unknown

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“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries

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Keep on trying. I’m so proud of you

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Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

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“I am a strong person. But every once in a while I would like someone to hold my hand and tell me things are going to be OK.”

— Unknown

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Tracey Emin, My Dead Body - A Trace Of Life, 2024, London

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anyone wanna take me out back and shoot me like an old dog

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i am once again fucking up and humiliating myself

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma