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“To be in favor of solitude is not to be against community or friendship or love. It’s not that being alone is better, just that without the experience of it we block ourselves from discovering something enormously beneficial, perhaps even vital, to selfhood. Who are you when you are not a friend, a partner, a lover, a sibling, a parent, a child? When no one is with you, what do you do, and do you do it differently than if someone was there? It’s hard to see someone fully when another person is always attached to them. More importantly, it’s hard for us to see our own selves if we’re not ever alone.”
— Amina Cain, A Horse at Night (via exhaled-spirals)
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not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.
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being in ur 20s is like what 2 songs am i listening to on repeat tonight
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