When I'm Bad, I’m Better

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SELIMA HILL

‘What Do I Really Believe?’ from Gloria: Selected Poems (2008);

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soon with the sun

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if only you was you again

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I am good. I am loved.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 1st, 1926

Text ID: Courage, be everything to yourself. Seek your truth; construct your life, a beautiful life; be strong and passionately cherish yourself to console yourself for being so alone in the midst of all those who love you.

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I say again, out of the sheer joy of being alive: salvation comes through risk—without that, life is not worth living! Happy New Year.

— Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life

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Cuff Cooper, from a letter featured in Love Letters of Great Men, Volume 1, orig. published in 2007

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Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

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