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“and then i wrote this to remember:

Stay safe. Live long. Wait. Don't rush. ”

Excerpt from Phrases and Words and Letters and Curses by leedelight

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“All of us, in some part or other, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we’ve committed, or a crime our soul is begging us to commit.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“Change your soul. How? That’s for you to figure out.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“I was a genius in more than dreams and in less than life. That is my tragedy.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“If I think, everything seems absurd to me; if I feel, everything seems strange; if I want, it’s something in me that does the wanting.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“Sometimes, when I’m actively engaged in life and have as clear a notion of myself as the next man, my mind is beset by a strange feeling of doubt: I begin to wonder if I exist, if I might not be someone else’s dream.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“I’ll lose myself and become night as well, without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped-for sun shining with the future.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“I can’t enjoy innocently gazing at people and things, for my longing to dig deeper is inexorable, and since my interest can’t exist without this longing, it must either die at its hands or wither [on its own].”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“[T]he shipwreck of all that had been dreamed, the paltriness of all that had been achieved, the sadness of living a life too miserable to be shared by others, and other people’s lives too miserable for us to want to share – all of this fell over souls and poisoned them.”

| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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| Excerpt from Para Kay B by Ricky Lee

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| Excerpt from Para Kay B by Ricky Lee

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| Excerpt from Para Kay B by Ricky Lee

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“Buong buhay iisa lang ang patakaran niya: Never go out of bounds. There are certain boundaries para sa bawat tao at doon lang ang lugar mo. Kapag lumagpas ka, maaari ka nang makapanakit ng iba.”

| Excerpt from Para Kay B by Ricky Lee

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| Excerpt from Para Kay B by Ricky Lee

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| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

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“I want to be the reason you feel safe being soft again.”

[nonefrancesca]

I don’t want to fix you—

just sit beside you

until your guard gets tired of standing.

until your hands forget

they were ever braced for impact.

and one day, without noticing,

you’re soft again—

not because of me,

but because you finally could be.

[leedelight]

how i want you to be loved:

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| Excerpt from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa