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teenage me and current me are both depressed directionless girls, the only difference is that current me started appreciating the beauty of the world and realized how good it is to be alive despite it all

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Forecourt of a gothic cathedral by moonlight. Watercolor on paper. — Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789-1869)

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

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"I Loved You", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Antony Wood)

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Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

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Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)

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Franz Kafka

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Cathy Park Hong, from "Spring and All"

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— Hélène Cixous, from “Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing.”

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james baldwin giovanni's room

kofi

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Sylvia Plath

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— Edna St. Vincent Millay to Arthur Davison Ficke, 1922.

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