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to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel

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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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A cup of calm in a chaotic world ☕

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Reading books out in nature 🌿

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”I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”

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Sylvia Plath, aged 18, journal entry #35, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (c. November 1950)

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June 4th, 1923 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

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— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice (via lunamonchtuna)

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—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (1922)

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— m. j. grandone ; Alone

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Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

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