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Real intimacy is the only way in this world to truly be brave.

Shayla Lawson, "On Intimacy (Kyoto, Japan)" from How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

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The two then talk of love: its grief; also its grace.

—Simon Armitage (trans.), Gawain and the Green Knight

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You're free to have my all, do with me what you will. I'll come just as you call and swear to serve you well.

—Simon Armitage (trans.), Gawain and the Green Knight

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A look of lightning flashed from somewhere in his soul.

—Simon Armitage (trans.), Gawain and the Green Knight

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—lying back, he assumed the shape of sleep—

—Simon Armitage (trans.), Gawain and the Green Knight

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‘O pearl,’ I said, ‘arrayed in pearls, are you my pearl that I have mourned, grieved for alone at night?

—Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron (trans.), excerpt of Pearl (The Pearl Manuscript)

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(Somebody will always be waiting for you who doesn’t know he or she is waiting for you.)

—Lance Olsen, Theories of Forgetting

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Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover, I don't want anybody else to hear of it.

—W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand

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And all my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up with a great gust of high explosive love.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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Don't ever think small about yourself. There's only one you in this hundred billion galaxies—your presence echoes in this vast unfathomable universe.

12/21/22, anastasiasyah

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Some people speak to your mind Some people speak to your heart Some people speak to your soul

But there’s that one person that speaks to three of them and suddenly, you find yourself empty and nothing in the world can restore you.

— 04/02/24, anastasiasyah

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But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

—T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", in Collected Poems

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—sit still my soul.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

—David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress

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so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back where dead lichens drip dead cinders upon moss of ash; so for your arrogance I am broken at last, I who had lived unconscious, who was almost forgot; if you had let me wait I had grown from listlessness into peace, if you had let me rest with the dead, I had forgot you and the past.

—H. D., excerpt from "Eurydice", in Collected Poems 1912-1944