Logophile

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How quickly I've fallen back into the abyss of pain, head above waters I convinced myself didn't exist. Yet I have become tired at every attempt to stay afloat.

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I suffer, without knowing if I deserve to. I'm not a pessimist. I'm sad.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.

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God, how painful it is, being angry.

- Simone de Beauvoir

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Sometimes you give your all and it doesn't come close to enough.

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“And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.”

- Yiyun Li, Things in nature merely grow.

[peelsofpoetry]

Here’s What Our Parents Never Taught Us by Shinji Moon Here’s what our parents never taught us: You will stay up on your rooftop until sunlight peels away the husk of the moon, chainsmoking cigarettes and reading Baudelaire, and you will learn that you only ever want to fall in love with someone who will stay up to watch the sun rise with you. You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will realize that nowhere seems like home anymore. A woman will kiss you and you’ll think her lips are two petals rubbing against your mouth. You will not tell anyone that you liked it. It’s okay. It is beautiful to love humans in a world where love is a metaphor for lust. You can leave if you want, with only your skin as a carry-on. All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket. All you need is someone on the other end of the map, thinking about the supple curves of your body, to guide you to a home that stretches out for miles and miles on end. You will lie to everyone you love. They will love you anyways. One day you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin. Molt. Don’t be afraid.

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[strokeofserenity]

Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet.”

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Vincent Van Gogh

[seashellyxx]

"I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills."

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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[juliamoloks]

“How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

- Khaled Hosseini

Art by George Rorris.

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