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“I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

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ANIS MOJGANI x ALEXANDER HARDING

‘For Those Who Can Still Ride In An Airplane For The First Time’, spoken word, uploaded on Youtube on 20 Apr. 2009;

Visible Light series (2010), photography

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Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

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start over as many times as you need to

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"Don't you ever die", Hovhannes Grigoryan (translated by tathev simonyan)

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Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka

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forgive me lord for I have imagined a life far more soft and tender than the one you created for me

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- Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you.

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- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

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Eugénie de Guérin, from “Journal of Eugénie de Guérin” (edited by G. S. Trebutien).

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Diluite me, I tell them. Make me easier to love.