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“Listen: I always return to myself.”

— Vesna Parun, tr. by Vasa D. Mihailovich, from “A Return to the Tree of Time,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

“What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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“The heart has its storms, has its seasons of drooping but also its calms and even its times of exaltation. There is a time of sighing and of praying but there is also a time of answer to prayer. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.”

— Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 November 1876

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“I love what is human, what gives softness,”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. December 1933

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“Everything hurts.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin written c. October 1933

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“Don’t wait for it. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.”

— Anaïs Nin (via weltenwellen)

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“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.”

— Maria Irene Fornes

(إِلَّا مَنۡ أَتَى ٱللَّهَ بِقَلۡبࣲ سَلِیمࣲ)