[antigonick]

“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

[marys2ndson]

“The centre of every poem is this: I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.”

— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (via roadmotel)

[aseaofquotes]

Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition

[love-the-person-you-are]

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Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. by Tamae K. Prindle, from The Selected Poems; “A Love Song to Myself,”

[pstroclus]

I love your blog it is so warm and secure 🥰🥰❤️

secure is i think the best compliment ever ty omg im vvv glad we’re mutals 🤍

[crumbargento]

Gone to Earth - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - 1950 - UK

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

Angels in America, Tony Kushner

[women-loving-art]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

[lgbtunis-moved]

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from “There’s Nothing Scarier than a Hungry Woman” by Laura Maw

[narcotic]

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

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[mischon]

Anna Madia - Hommage to Arthur Rimbaud

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.” - Rimbaud

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

““I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.””

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[los]

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There are times in your life when being alone becomes the normality. It’s so hard to meet people when you don’t feel any connection to anyone, but the loneliness gets worse when you stop trying. Maybe you’ve convinced yourself that you enjoy your solitude. You think that it’s just the way it is because maybe there is something wrong with you or maybe you’re just meant to be alone. But believe me when I say that you need to feel connected, even if it’s something little like smiling with a stranger or catching up an old friend. The worst thing you can do is convince yourself that you’re naturally alone or you simply don’t belong, because there are people out there who share your interests and thoughts, who wish at night to have a friend like you, who would love and care about you unconditionally if they ever met you. Be open to new people because you never know how much they could change your life.

[vesselsofmercy]

““I don’t have anything to nourish me: I eat myself.””

— Clarice Lispector from, A Breath of Life