stuff about life and stuff...

[poems-and-word]

[books-n-quotes]

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise: A Play (via books-n-quotes)

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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Amy Tan, Saving Fish From Drowning (via books-n-quotes)

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Sometimes the sins you haven’t committed are all you have left to hold onto.

David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames (via books-n-quotes)

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How do you go back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul?

Nikita Gill, “A Question That Bleeds” (via books-n-quotes)

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Even if things didn’t always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to.

Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes (via books-n-quotes)

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via books-n-quotes)

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Maybe a damned good night’s sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it’s all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can’t put it straight, don’t want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems (via books-n-quotes)

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape (via books-n-quotes)

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via books-n-quotes)

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How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (via books-n-quotes)

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[lifephilosophised-blog]

National Library of China, Beijing. 😍😍

[emotionalmarigolds]

The world won’t allow me patience to flourish.

When someone annoyingly asks, why are you not where you want to be.//E.M.//8 words #86 (via emotionalmarigolds)

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[hipindie]

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