C'est la vie.

Thuthi Nguyen / 25 / Montreal

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“Your distance hurts me.”

— Mirabai, from tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Delight; “Let Me See You,”

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Yesterday seems years ago — even this morning seems years ago —

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz written c. May 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I was the one who asked him to leave. So that I could think. So that I wouldn’t always just…feel.

Joyce Carol Oates, from “Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I felt him in everything. And what I felt was too deep.

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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It drags on without end, this heavy amber day.

Anna Akhmatova, from Collected Poems; “To M. Lozinsky,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Unspoken

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“The Battle of the Sexes” (1928) - D.W. Griffith

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I received you in my soul, in my whole consciousness,

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a  letter to Marina Tsvetaeva c. May 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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It wasn’t because of the pain that I was silent, it was because of the ugliness of that pain.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke c. June 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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But there are so many things which disturb me. I can’t just sit back and take them calmly. I must cry out against them. And I take advantage of your patience by doing so.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Hans-Joachim Neupert c. January 1950 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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You were wild and sweet between pleasure and sleep, between fire and water.

Pablo Neruda, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “Night on the Island,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

José Saramago, tr. by Tim Crosfield, from his nobel speech c. 1998 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Book of the day: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Book of the day: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Book of the day:Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

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