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so real

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it's encouraging to be around people who imagine a bigger life for themselves, whose only desire is to collaborate harmoniously with others, see opportunity instead of obstacle, people who remind you that life is about seeing how far you can go and how much fun you can have...real life enjoyers

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Angela Carter, from a poem titled "Unicorn", featured in Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter

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DON’T YOU REALIZE OUR BODIES COULD FALL APART AT ANY SECOND?

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we have got to start putting gargoyles on buildings again

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don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get

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I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting

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first person i think i was ever truly truly into in a real way is now my loving partner whom i adore and get to spend time with and all my friends also love and integrates into my life so well and i share passions and goals with #awesome #winner

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sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

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healing happens in circles, not lines. you will return to old places with new eyes.

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they should invent a medicine that makes the aching jagged wound in your soul close

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long shower the morning after a campfire feels like being reborn

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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sleeping in my own bed for the first time in four nights like man what’s even the point