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“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.”

— Rachel Wolchin

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium, #3)

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

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"You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with.

You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding."

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

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1 June, 1933

I had meant to give expression to my emotions: but Lord! What a vain hope.

- Virginia Woolf

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31 May, 1927

Are you in bed? yes I suppose so. With an aching head. Able to read? Allowed to have letters? ... I do so worry about you, and above all can't bear the idea that you should be in pain.

- From Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

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29 May, 1927

"Write, dear honey, a nice letter to me."

- From Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

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"If you were to build the world again, to create males and females again, do not be like an inexperienced potter. Come to earth as a woman, Prabhu!

Be a woman once, oh Lord!"

Banu Mushtaq, from "Heart Lamp", tr. Deepa Bhasthi

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22 May, 1912

Next time you begin a letter: 'Are you pregnant, or married?' do for Goodness Sake, put the right number. Your envelope reached me open, and on it was written, "Opened by J. Stephen" - who lives at 32, and when she saw what was in it, she promptly gave it back - but what of your character? The postman drew his own conclusions.

- From Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson

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20 May, 1927

My darling, I am still under the spell of being with you.

- From Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

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19 May, 1933

It's a queer thing that I write a date. Perhaps in this disoriented life one thinks, if I can say what day it is, then... Three dots to signify I don't know what I mean.

- Virginia Woolf

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“It was like walking through the world’s most hectic street market on cocaine. It was like channel hopping an entire wall of TV sets. It was like telepathically tuning into the thoughts of a stadium packed with people. But really it wasn’t like anything else, because it was new.”

- Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

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“An egg became more famous than the Pope. A highly contagious virus raged through West Africa. A fashion brand exploited East Asian sweatshop workers. A young woman recorded all the times she was catcalled. Two African Americans were killed by the police. A man went around filming first kisses. A plane vanished en route to Beijing. A woman was beautiful. An apartment full of plants was beautiful. A vegan quiche was beautiful. A child needed money for chemo. Time disappeared. The city ebbed and flowed like a tide.”

- Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

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"Anna and Tom envied not only those who had been able to fight for a radically different world, but even those who had been able to imagine it."

- Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

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"Reality didn't always live up to the pictures."

- Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

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"What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?"

Valerie Kaur, Interfaith Watch Night Service - 2016