Other people's words

A collection of quotes from various sources

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The Library at Hellebore - Cassandra Khaw

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

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"The difference between a story and facts is that a story makes sense and facts just exist."

Isabel J. Kim, "Day Ten Thousand"

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by Radclyffe Hall

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by Radclyffe Hall

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by Radclyffe Hall

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Radclyffe Hall

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What now availeth bitterness or tears?

The ruin of our past has lain for years

Exposed to scoffing eyes. Come then with me

And gather simple flowers from fields and trees,

To cover up these bones.

A Plea - Radclyffe Hall

[roadmotel]

Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t

[metamorphesque]

Autumn Halo, Oda Sakunosuke

[untiloblivions]

ON CLOSENESS 

Sally Rooney, Normal People / Edvard Munch / Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina / Holly Warburton / Jenny Slate, Little Weirds / Salman Toor

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Prologue.

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George Eliot - Middlemarch. Chapter 22.

[blommowitch]

“Illness and deformity, instead of being thought of as human variants, the consequence of cosmic bad luck, have invariably been portrayed as deviations from the fully human condition, brought on by personal failing or by divine judgement. The afflicted body is never simply that–a creature that suffers, as all creatures suffer from time to time. Rather, it is thought to be ‘broken,’ and thus to have lost its original usefulness; or ‘embattled,’ and thus in need of militaristic response, its own or someone else’s, to whip it back into shape; or 'spoiled,’ and thus a potential menace to the bodies around it. In any case, it is not the sort of thing your average citizen would like to wake up next to tomorrow morning.”

— Nancy Mairs, “Body in Trouble” (via gothhabiba)

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“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”

— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)

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"to be wanted, you must be less."

the magnus archives, episode 171