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“Some days, I feel everything at once. Other days, I feeling nothing at all. I don’t know what’s worse: drowning beneath the waves or dying from the thirst.”

— o.m

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i save me, i heal me, i got me, i have me.

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“So much to do and so I undo myself.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. by Yvette Siegert, from Extracting the Stone of Madness: “Extracting the Stone of Madness”

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Rimel Neffati

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– "Rien ne va plus" book by Margarita Karapanou, translation by Karen Emmerich

[TEXT ID: "I need days when I can be alone, to think, to daydream." END ID]

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My silence means I’m tired of everything.

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There's something so magical about winter's sunlight. Whenever I sit under that sunlight even for just fifteen minutes then I just feel like I'm healing and love is real.

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― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[text ID: I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.]

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions’", published c. 2017.

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sorry i isolated myself for a month i was having a depressive episode and it’ll definitely happen again

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Are you alright??

"No, I'm longing for a place or home that doesn't even exist."

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Alex Dimitrov, from “Living in Time” [ID in ALT]

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We

I know that hope is the hardest love we carry.

— Jane Hirshfield, from “Hope and Love”

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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1Q84, Haruki Murakami

[text ID:  You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.]

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