Outside the window sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I'm human.
- Wang Xiaoni, White Moon
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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
- Richard Siken, Crush
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I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person.
- Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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I am a child with an old soul.
I see magic in everything, but at the same time, everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.
- Juansen Dizon
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When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-Kahlil Gibran
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When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-Kahlil Gibran
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You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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forever an amy dunne apologist
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I am not deserving, yet Allāh’s blessings and mercy towards me are ineffable…
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Urgency, there was so much urgency - to change, to escape the past.
Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012
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In people's lives I want to be that which does not hurt.
Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Time, 14 June 1926, from Letters: Summer 1926
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I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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We ought to read only the kind of book that wound and stab us.
If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
-Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak
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I fear that I will be ripped open and found unsightly.
- Anne Sexton, A Self-Potrait in Letters
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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
- Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
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I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out.
I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.
- Natalie Diaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)
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I'm filled with a desire for clarity and meaning with a world and condition that offers nothing.
- Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus
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