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Glennon Doyle, Untamed

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Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

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A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

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Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

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For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

David Foster Wallace

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The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

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The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

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adapted from a poem my friend wrote ʚɞ

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said.vesmir on instagram

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Joy Sullivan, "Howl", Instructions for Traveling West

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When Death Comes - Mary Oliver

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a letter from the fortress, to his brother (1849) - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

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Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened.

Albert Hirschman