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"do it scared" no I won't, sorry guys

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But there was something almost agonising about speaking and being misunderstood or found unintelligible, something that got right to the heart of all my fears about aloneness. No one will ever understand you. No one wants to hear what you say. Why can’t you fit in, why do you have to stick out so much?

Olivia Laing, from The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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Refuge.

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What kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Audrey Benjaminsen’s illustrations for Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.

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12.17.23

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'The Fairy Procession' (Thorn Rose) by Errol Le Cain, 1977.

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"Don't allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them." - Unknown

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Two stags stood like mourners out among the weathered graves.

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Star of the morning, collapsed in the weeds.

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Karl Karger - “Goethe’s Works” Vol. 3, 1885.

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i cant wait (<-lie) for it to get cold as fuckk so i can finally start dressing while every other aspect of my life noticeably worsens for several dark months