striving

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of (wo)man to elevate [herself] by conscious endeavor." ..................................................................

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Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West, dated 7 October 1928, from Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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heartstrings I (2013) by selma alaçam

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from "Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932"

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there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

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Boris Pasternak, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva featured in Letters, Summer 1926

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir quoted in Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography