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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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you deserve someone who eases the pain

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Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites

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sleep + art

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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I really believe the biggest gift I can give myself as a woman is the freedom to just be out in the world and be obsessed with learning & making & doing things instead of anything internal even though I wasn't raised to be that way at all

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“The waves won’t stop when you leave” this is such a beautiful quote . Life will go on without me

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i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.

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It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

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Mary Oliver, "When Did It Happen?", Felicity

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934

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