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I just wanna be happy. For once, I wanna be the one that gets to be happy.

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isabelle adjani, 1980, by hervé guibert, jardins de plantes, paris

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King Lear performed in the fire-damaged ruins of Teatro Municipal de Lima (c. 1999), conceived by architect Luis de Longhi

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“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.” —Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Alone. That’s the only way. [Alone]” — Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries

“I? I walk alone;” —Sylvia Plath, Soliloquy of the Solipsist

“Now I know: I’m alone. I and my freedom that I don’t know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude. Whoever isn’t lost doesn’t know freedom and love it. As for me, I own up to my solitude that sometimes falls into ecstasy as before fireworks. I am alone and must live a certain intimate glory that in solitude can become pain. And the pain, silence.” —Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“There are not two of us. Each of us is alone.” — Marguerite Duras, No More / C’est Tout

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"I asked chatgpt-" okay well I asked the island. and it's alive and it told me we are here for a reason we must discover ourselves through the journey the island takes us. nothing in here is coincidence, but it's destiny. the island also told me that this is my purpose, and by the way, we have to go back.

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via richardscarrylove

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"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

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“I have never been in despair about the world. I am enraged by it. I can't afford despair. You can't tell the children there's no hope.” - Baldwin

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James Baldwin, from Just Above My Head (1979)

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morning, frank o’hara

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I LOVE IT WHEN ENDINGS CIRCLE BACK TO THE BEGINNING!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS MIRROR EACH OTHER!!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS SEAL THEIR FATES IN THEIR FIRST SCENES!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS' GREATEST TRAITS ARE ALSO WHAT DOOM THEM IN THE END!!!!!

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Lowlands, scotland, august 2013

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SOPHIE THATCHER Photographed by Jason Renaud for SNUFF Magazine Issue 6, 2025

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the city by C. P. Cavafy

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DAWSON'S CREEK (1998-2003) Season 4, Episode 1 - Coming Home