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“I acquired the certainty that life would yield to my dreams and that I would not fail: I would suffer but I would live.”
— Colette “Laure” Peignot, excerpt from “Story of a Little Girl”
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“I come clutching the hope that I might suffer nothing beyond my fate.”
— Diane J. Rayor, excerpt from Antigone
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I used to trust time and think the longer you were with someone the less likely they were to leave. Now I know that isn't true. What is the root of this ache? The betrayal?
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Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein,"
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Vita Sackville-West, from Complete Works of Vita Sackville-West
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I can’t stop thinking about how my dad could have easily been a family annihilator when he committed suicide and there is an alternate reality where he killed us all before killing himself
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...for Simone Weil, the dark night of God's absence, is itself the soul's contact with God. When she speaks of an 'ineffable consolation' that fills the soul after it has renounced everything, renounced even the desire for grace, she does not mean that supernatural love is something distinct from the acceptance of the void. To endure the void, to suffer evil, is our contact with God."
— Susan Taubes, The Absent God
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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"
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I love showers I love baths I love washing my hair i love soap and bubbles and steam and sweet smelling lotions and soft skin and water droplets and
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