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all too well (ten minute version) - taylor swift

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“I believe in the person I want to become.”

— Lana Del Rey

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

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— Anton Chekhov, from “After The Fair.”

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to F.S. Cooper written c. February 1876

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— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

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“(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”

— Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow” (via rosettes)

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Van Cleef & Arpels - Vintage alhambra mother-of-pearl necklace

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Henry James, from “The Portrait Of A Lady”

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“You can’t see anything at all until you learn to perceive with the eyes of others.”

— It is simply not sufficient to know the truth of a given issue, we must also seek to learn and understand, through the healing habit of a noble and civilized empathy, how other’s may have arrived at different conclusions.

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“What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire”

— Theodore Roethke - from The Marrow

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“I disappeared very carefully.”

— Fredrik Nyberg, tr. by Jennifer Hayashida, from “Armeria, Willd. Fem.,”

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