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May Sarton // The House by the Sea

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"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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June Gehringer, “I get so jealous of euthanized dogs”

[Text ID: “the worst thing about love is / i remember it. / i walk around all day / thinking: i’m going to die / in the universe / you loved me in.”]

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"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it feel this way to you?"

— Kazuo Ishiguro // 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech

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— @heavenlyyshecomes

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Studio Ghibli + Reading Books

And when you told me what your favourite book was, I bought it and read it over and over.. trying to find pieces of you in it.

— Anonymous // Pinterest

[shisasan]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

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Studio Ghibli + Hugs

She turned to me and said, "Hold me". So I dropped the world I had been holding and picked her up with both hands.

— Anonymous // @instagram

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Sunday, 10 September 1939)

[feral-ballad]

Anonymous, Compiled & Edited by Peter H. Lee, From Anthology of Korean Literature: from early times to the nineteenth century; “Spring overflows the pavilion”

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Studio Ghibli + Rain 3

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"I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it."

— Hanamoto Hagumi // Honey and Clover

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Studio Ghibli + Holding Hands

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"I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.”

— Richard Siken // Crush

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When I read Charles Bukowski's words, "We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain," something strung the chords in my chest.

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