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I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone

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the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

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Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha [originally published 1922]

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The thought that you exist is so divinely blissful in itself that it is ridiculous to talk about the everyday sadness of separation – a week’s, ten days’ – what does it matter? since my whole life belongs to you.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

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“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

— Carl Jung (via fyp-psychology)

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dang

Who else thinks love is overrated until your head hits that mf pillow at night and you realize youre all alone and want to bond with someones heart

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“…I have never been able to forgive. I have a matted creature in my heart that calls itself forgiveness but is nothing more than mercy, cleverly disguised, but with talons. Mercy needing blood.”

— B. Damani || Fragment 7 (via mjalti)

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Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]

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Marie Lu

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― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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"in black ink my love may still shine bright."

-William Shakespeare

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“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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"I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what i seem and what i am"

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

Philip Roth, Sabbath’s Theater (via quotespile)

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“When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.”

Sergio Leone (via criminalwisdom)