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“Apologize to your body. Maybe that is where the healing begins.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

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— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across

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Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

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André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927

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officially the best line in The Odyssey

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17 May, 1932 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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'Under Monet's Pond' by Eiko Jones

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And the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape

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