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[dowries]

you were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.

abraham m. alghanem, carrefour.

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holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that by hating someone we hurt them. but hatred is a curved blade and the harm we do to others, we also do to ourselves.

mitch albom, the five people you meet in heaven.

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most witches don’t believe in gods. they know that the gods exist, of course. they even deal with them occasionally. but they don’t believe in them. they know them too well. it would be like believing in the postman.

terry pratchett.

[dowries]

i’ll understand your sadness because i live inside my own.

clementine von radics.

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i am inside someone who hates me.

amiri baraka, an agony. as now.

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you are a glass that i have paid to shatter and i swallow the pieces down with my spit.

anne sexton, buying the whore.

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you have to find the right distance between people. too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.

hanif kureishi, intimacy.

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but i don’t want comfort. i want poetry. i want danger. i want freedom. i want goodness. i want sin.

aldous huxley, brave new world.

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a little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

roald dahl, charlie and the great glass elevator.

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if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

roald dahl.

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i think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. you need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

oscar wilde.

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you make me nostalgic for a love that hasn’t even happened yet.

iain thomas, i wrote this for you.

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i suppose it is good for the soul to be hurt and perplexed perpetually. i know at least that i miss you damnably: that is a good fixed star.

vita sackville-west, in a letter to virginia woolf, 9 february 1927.

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travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

gustave flaubert.

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travel far enough, you meet yourself.

david mitchell, cloud atlas.

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you are not accidental. the world needs you. without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

osho.

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you tried to change didn’t you? 
closed your mouth more tried to be softer
 prettier 
less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do, love split his head open? 
you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

warsan shire.