don’t want to be a girl i want to be a single star in the night sky shining so bright all the way to lonely people who look up and hope to see a sign
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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1935 featured in Selected Diaries
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“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that l’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
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I was in the land of the moon and I’ve come back, and here you are and you are life.
Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph (tr. by Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley), 1945
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“I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”
— Alexandra Elle, Words From A Wanderer
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The Furthest Distance In The World
The furthest distance in the world
Is not between life and death
But when I stand in front of you
Yet you don't know I love you
The furthest distance in the world
Is not when I stand in front of you
Yet you cannot see my love
Rather, when doubtlessly loving each other
Yet is fated not to be together
The furthest distance in the world
Is not being apart while in-love
But when I cannot resist my yearning
Yet pretending
That you were never in my heart
The furthest distance in the world
Is not pretending you were never in my heart
But willingly digging upon the cold heart
An uncrossable river for the beloved
So the furthest distance in the world
is not among distant trees
It is between same-rooted branches
Yet can never lean nor touch
So the furthest distance in the world
Is not in the separated branches
It is between the distant stars
As their paths can never cross
So the furthest distance in the world
Is not when stars can never cross
But it is when they align
But only leaving
A memory of brightness
So the furthest distance in the world
Is not the light that is fading away
It is this coincidence
That we are not supposed to love
So the furthest distance in the world
Is the love between the Fish and the Bird
While one is lingering over the sky
The other can only look upon in the sea
The Furthest Distance In The World
By Zhang Xiaoxian (Translated by me)
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when a sunflower matures
it stops following the sun
and bloom forever-facing east
-Jaei Heim, an excerpt from A Letter for a Sunflower
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“I’m in pain because the day is ending and somehow l am never healing.”
— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
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أعان الله الصامتين، على ضجيج قلوبهم.
وليام شكسبير
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“This reminded me of you” is such a tender sentence. Oh to have impacted someone so much that they find bits of your soul and hold the memory of you in things and places when you’re not around.
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- Lao Tzu
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles
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“I feel very small. I don’t understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
— Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939
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““Be near with the trees so they can teach your soul that every time the winds of change comes all you have to do is to sway.” Juansen Dizon”
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arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" could have got jane austen crying and shaking
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“You know you really love someone, When you don’t hate them for breaking your heart.”
— ThePersonalQuotes
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