wellconstructedsentences
wellconstructedsentences
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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For hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot keep.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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Queerness is a social concept—a way of describing the complexity around us. The same is true of ecology.
HR Smith
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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And if you like numbers, I will tell you that here on earth . . .
Etel Adnan
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.
Good Luck, Babe! by Chappell Roan
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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I like movies, not because they’re like life, but because they aren’t.
No Fault by Haley Mlotek
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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I talk about myself behind my back … I waste myself.
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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It is not that divorce reveals a more elemental aspect to a person’s character—although it certainly can—but that it is the only way to find out who we are in those moments of pain, loss, and shame that come after standing up in front of the people you trust and love the most, only to say later that you hadn’t known what you were doing.
No Fault by Haley Mlotek
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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Sometimes there's an owl and sometimes there isn't.
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
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wellconstructedsentences · 4 months ago
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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Hating my body remains a waste of my time.
Like a Mother by Angela Garbes
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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A rotating black hole does not collapse to a dot. That's the old-fashioned thinking. It collapses to a ring, a ring of neutrons. And if you fall through the ring of neutrons vertically, you wind up in Wonderland. You wind up on the other side of forever.
Michio Kaku
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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If you must know something, know that the hardest task is to live only once.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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Dear brother from another time, today some stars gave in to the black around them & i knew it was you.
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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I hope the Universe love you today.
The Art of Peer Pressure by Kendrick Lamar
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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I make this song about me full sadly my own wayfaring. I a woman tell what griefs I had since I grew up new or old never more than now. Ever I know the dark of my exile. . . The man sent me out to live in the woods under an oak tree in this den in the earth. Ancient this earth hall. I am all longing.
The Wife's Lament by Anonymous
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wellconstructedsentences · 5 months ago
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I stand on the stump of a child, whether myself or my little brother who died, and yell as far as I can, I cannot leave this place, for me it is the dearest and the worst, it is life nearest to life which is life lost: it is my place where I must stand
Easter Morning by A.R. Ammons
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