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“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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Can we bring back love letters?

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wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh

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tbh i’d rather be in the gardens of Versailles rn 

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“Something in you pacifies me. You’ve always had that power over me – part of you pacifies, another terrifies. How do I get sick of that? I will never get sick of that.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

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Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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I contain multitudes darling.

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I hope in another world, we got over our deranged doubts and others' twisted opinions.

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I won't. I won't ever confess I'm home sick. Or guilty. Broken. I'm homesick, guilty and broken.

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“I will hallucinate your halos, your holiness.”

— Meena Kandasamy, from Mrs Sunshine

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weird animal flipbooks i made

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speaking it into existence that tomorrow i am going to go for a walk and read something and have a shower and eat something nice and do some work and just do some of these things because i believe in making myself feel better. even incrementally. even just through the sound of birdsong

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humans are a subspecies of elf known for dying really quickly and being stressed the whole time

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-The Siren-