And like a deer in the headlights, I meet my fate;

I wasn’t supposed to survive;

[shisasan]

Charles Baudelaire, The Balcony The Flowers of Evil, tr. James McGowan Originally published 1857

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“Find someone who knows how to calm your storm.”

— Donna Aradini

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“One small crack doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”

— Linda Poindexter

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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Photo by @inthesilentcold

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“So much life in one little world.”

— Unknown

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Sylvia Plath, aged 26, NOTEBOOK, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated January 3, 1959)

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[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017

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My melancholy was gold dust in your hands;

Alfonsina Storni, from "Sweet Torture" in Selected Poems

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Alfonsina Storni, from "The Siren" in Mask & Clover: Poems

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sufferinggggggggg and agony omfgggg

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L. V., archived writings

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