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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution - Khalil Gibran

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All are equal in the grave -Richard Kadrey, "Devil Said Bang"

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I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books - Gary Paulsen

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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable -Albert Camus

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When I die, I know I am going to heaven because I have spent my life in hell - Barbara Hesselman Kautz

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I carry your breath in my hands like warm sun at dusk. Your laughter vines through my hair, roots growing into my heart - Patty Dickson Pieczka, "Autumn", Beyond the Moon's White Claw

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September; it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows and regret - Alexander Theroux

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I want the dead lovers of our world to hear our laughter, to grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain

Oscar Wilde

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It's getting towards the end of July and I'm not with you

Rainer Maria Rike

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you - Maya Angelou, "I Now Why the Caged Bird Sings"

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I know this transformation is painful but you're not falling apart; you're just falling into something different. with a new capacity to be beautiful -William C. Hannan

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened by responsibility - Sigmund Freud

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence -Oscar Wilde

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The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence - Charles Bukowski

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The loneliness of being unseen by others is as fundamental a pain as physical injury, but it doesn't show on the outside. Emotional loneliness is a vague and private experience, not easy to see or describe. you might call it a feeling of emptiness or being alone in the world. Some people have called this feeling existential loneliness, bt there's nothing existential about it. If you feel it, it came from your family

Lindsay C. Gibson, “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” 

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My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender

Anna White