Girlfriend on the Run

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In art, the emotions are the meaning.

Henry James

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To grow older is not to understand more but to realise that there is more to understand.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Vol. 6

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

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We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Fear is excitement without breathing.

Tom Daley

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Only by fully preparing oneself for people's absence can one be at ease with their presence.

Yiyun LI

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Capitalism wants you to believe that your body is a machine, and it doesn't belong to you. We're saying no, your body is not a machine. It belongs to you. You can rest now, you have a divine right to do so.

Tricia Hersey, @thenapministry

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Marianne and Connell

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Marianne and Connell

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When you are in love you forgive everything.

Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child (via girlfriendontherun)

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Marianne and Connell, Normal People

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Marianne and Connell, Normal People

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Marianne and Connell, Normal People

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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch, ‘The Sublime and the Good’

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H.P. Lovecraft

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It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

Yoshida Kenkō

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus