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[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images

[florifer]

tell me

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"

[starlightacademia]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment via starlightacademia

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Yosano Akiko, from a poem featured in River of Stars: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko

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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

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Novalis, tr. by Mabel Cotterell, from Selected Writings; “Hymns To The Night,”

[mournfulroses]

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

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Julia de Burgos, from a poem titled "That You Love Me," featured in Song of the Simple Truth: Poems

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Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

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Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

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Sonya Vatomsky, from a poem titled "Spring Flowers," featured in Salt Is for Curing, publ. in 2015

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