[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[hereiswhatremains]

"I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult."

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966

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My solitude is an intoxication

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "I Am Vertical,"

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

[shisasan]

From March 12 to 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[noctilucentis]

Beauty is Terror.

1. first elegy from the duine elegies, by rilke / 2 & 3. the secret history by donna tartt / 4. água viva by clarice lispector / 5. the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky

[gnossienne]

Milan Kundera, Ignorance:A Novel

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

[orpheuslament]

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

[exitwound]

oh i get it now i made mistakes that made my life fundamentally more painful so that i could be more devastated by poetry

[duckdotcom]

patch of sunlight from the window save me

[moonstoast]

crush by richard siken // richard diebenkorn // richard diebenkorn // if there’s a way out i’ll take it by lora mathis

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Lora Mathis