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I can’t stop thinking about when Susan Sontag said “I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall — like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

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Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

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Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]

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“Since I met you, I’ve felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”

— Franz Kafka

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Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

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“Where are you, how are you, and do you love me–”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson wr. c. September 1908 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there”

— Adrianne Kalfopoulou, “Poem in Pieces, a Log,” A History of Too Much

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"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

Sylvia Plath

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“I think my heart is dead. But no, it can’t be, for it aches too much.”

L. M. Montgomery, Further Chronicles of Avonlea

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rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

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oh my god. most of life really is about the little things. a good haircut, a nice playlist, trying a new recipe that turns out well, a poem that hits home, a comfortable spot in the sun, spontaneous messages, a pen you enjoy writing with, tea with the right temperature to drink, buying that thing you’ve been eyeing for a while, a warm bed. yeah. im so grateful for the little enjoyments

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Luna Lu: 'The Anatomy of a Hug' (2016)