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you have to love yourself so much that you become unbothered by the lack of love from others
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Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
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14 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
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Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.
The Look, Sara Teasdale
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
— Oscar Wilde
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stan & sparky doodle from last month. got emotional about them as always
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The Starry Night; Vincent van Gogh, Anne Sexton
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When a physicist falls in love :)
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

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“It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”
— Morrissey, Autobiography
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Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “See”
[Text ID: “How rare to see someone and feel. / How rare to see someone and know / you are not alone, / for your eyes are theirs, / your pain, too. / How rare to truly see someone.”]
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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”
WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????
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WHEN ON PERIOD:
do not crash out
your feelings are NOT valid
do not send that text
don't kill yourself. lock in
do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed
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