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“All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.”
— Unknown
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“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
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Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps/Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream
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“It's just that I belong in the quietest quiet, that's what's right for me.”
Franz Kafka
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— William James, from “[I’m done trying to make sense].”
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“I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.”
— Jay Crownover, Rule
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“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”
Nicole Krauss, Great House
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— May Sarton, from “Journal of a Solitude.”
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— May Sarton, from “Journal of a Solitude.”
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— Paul Celan, from The Selected Poems; “Torch Procession.”
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— Elizabeth Bishop, from a letter to Anny Baumann.
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— Alfred De Musset, from “Complete Letters.”
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
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