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“Mais je suis seul au bord du quai où tous les jours matin et soir je vais pour écouter les vagues – elles me parlent de toi.”

— François de Cornière, “Chanson” − Nageur du petit matin

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Abstraction, 1950, Willem de Kooning

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Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931, Frida Kahlo

Medium: oil,canvas

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“I know that I must have been mad, senseless, to believe that snow would become animated or marble warm; but what then! They who love believe easily in love.”

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Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers 

(via talesofpassingtime)

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“It was not until the day where you slowly slipped through my fingers like grains of sands, that I realized the mist of an autumn is no different from the sad blue hues that resides at each corner of the sky.”

— Lukas W. // Sad blue hues

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I honestly think relationships in general would be healthier, in general, if we didn’t believe they should always, by default, last forever.

When the default is “forever” and shorter relationships are seen as a failure, we miss out on a lot. We stay in relationships that don’t work because they’re not “bad enough” to leave, as though not wanting the relationship anymore isn’t a good enough reason. We deny ourselves happy memories, saying “If it doesn’t work now, our love then wasn’t real.” We pass on relationships we know would be short, because if it doesn’t last forever, what’s the point in joy in the moment?

An ending isn’t a failure. It’s an ending. Most relationships have them. What would our relationships be like if we stopped focusing on our fear of endings and started focusing on what we - and our friends, partners, and families - need and want right now?

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“Unresolved trauma can show up as the unconscious hunt for situations that are painful, unsafe and intensely disruptive. We may feel what we believe to be intuition pulling us toward situations that seem sweet on the surface but turn out to be wolves in sheeps’ clothing, waiting to re-enact painful dynamics from the past.

I believe that a big part of healing is re-establishing our connection with the intuitive self. It is learning to recognize the difference between being pulled toward what is truly right for us, and the unconscious drive to resolve trauma by replaying painful narratives over and over again.” - Jessica Dore

(https://www.jessicadore.com/january-2019-tarot-offering/)

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“I consider how you don’t get to choose whom you’re attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.” - David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (via the-book-diaries)

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Woman and Bird in the Moonlight, Joan Miro

https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/woman-and-bird-in-the-moonlight

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“After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.”

— Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958 (via goodreadss)

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“I mean, what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there’s nothing left.” - Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal

via @quotespile

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                                       in this light, he looks—his body looks—like a set of instructions I don’t expect

                     I’ll need. Here’s how to keep what’s good from spoiling—

                           This is how you paint a sleeping bird.

— Carl Phillips, from “Hymns and Fragments,” The Rest of Love

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“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.”

— Mark Twain (via quotemadness)

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“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

— Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance — now, at this very moment — of all external events. That’s all you need.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.6)

via @philosophybits

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“And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”

— Franz Kafka (via naturaekos)