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In Tunisian, we don't say 'I miss you', we say 'twahashtek/ توحشتك' which translates to I became lonely (without) you, and I think that's beautiful.

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In Tunisian, we don't say 'I miss you', we say 'twahashtek/ توحشتك' which translates to I became lonely (without) you, and I think that's beautiful.

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“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

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I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near. Excuse the bad writing and excuse the emotional overflow. What I mean to say, perhaps, is that, in a way, I am never empty of you; not for a moment, an instant, a single second.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via violentwavesofemotion)

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A soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest, but the one that makes you feel the most. Who conducts your heart to bang the loudest, who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in.

Sierra DeMulder, excerpt from “Unrequited Love Poem” (via thoughtkick)

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“This love means an affirmative desire towards the Other – to respect the Other, to pay attention to the Other, not to destroy the otherness of the Other – and this is the preliminary affirmation, even if afterwards because of this love, you ask questions. There is some negativity in deconstruction. I wouldn’t deny this. You have to criticise, to ask questions, to challenge and sometimes to oppose. What I have said is that in the final instance, deconstruction is not negative although negativity is no doubt at work. Now, in order to criticise, to negate, to deny, you have first to say “yes”. When you address the Other, even if it is to oppose the Other, you make a sort of promise – that is, to address the Other as Other, not to reduce the otherness of the Other, and to take into account the singularity of the Other. That’s an irreducible affirmation, its the original ethics if you want. So from that point of view, there is an ethics of deconstruction. Not in the usual sense, but there is an affirmation. You know, I often use a quote from Rosensweig or even from Levinas which says that the “yes” is not a word like others, that even if you do not pronounce the word, there is a “yes” implicit in every language, even if you multiply the “no”, there is a “yes”. And this is even the case with Heidegger. You know Heidegger, for a long time, for years and years kept saying that thinking started with questioning, that questioning (fragen) is the dignity of thinking. And then one day, without contradicting this statement, he said “yes, but there is something even more originary than questioning, than this piety of thinking,” and it is what he called zusage which means to acquiesce, to accept, to say “yes”, to affirm. So this zusage is not only prior to questioning, but it is supposed by any questioning. To ask a question, you must first tell the Other that I am speaking to you. Even to oppose or challenge the Other, you must say “at least I speak to you”, “I say yes to our being in common together”. So this is what I meant by love, this reaffirmation of the affirmation.”

— Jacques Derrida, interviewed by Nikhil Padgaonkar (via heteroglossia)

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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

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Jamie Varon

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  ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[text ID: I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?]

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of course love exists that’s why matt berninger from the national wrote “i wanna hurry home to you, put on a slow dumb show for you, and crack you up" and then “you know i dreamed about you for 29 years before i saw you, i missed you for 29 years”

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- Steven Solomon, Lorie Teagno

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Life update.

It has been a while since I logged in on Tumblr. I truly miss the days when it's one of the first things I do every morning. That was five years ago. That's a very long time.

Work life has been good lately. A few months ago, I got out of a toxic work environment. I like the job but not the people I was with. I'm still glad I took that offer and made something out of it. I learned a lot, especially how to do deal with and talk to people. Now, I feel more confident and less awkward around officemates and even strangers. I am already at my sixth month in my current job. I am paid well despite not having to do any work sometimes. But there are still very busy days. It comes and it goes.

Personal life is fine. I am happy with where I am at. I am content with what I have and do not have. I think that's important. I am 80% financially independent from my parents. I still live in the family home but really hoping I can move out soon. The culture just got in the way. But other than a failed attempt to be fully independent, I am good.

The pandemic is a bummer. Last year was supposed to be a year of travels, of relaxation, and of making memories and opportunities I missed because of law school. Still I am grateful. I am alive. We are alive and healthy. Here's to hoping it stays that way until all of this is over. I really miss outside life.

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James Longenbach, from “Barcarolle”

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“I hope you get where you’re going, and be happy when you do.”

— Jack Kerouac