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- "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald; Tender is the Night (via quotexcerpts)
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- September 24
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Sharon Van Etten, from Remind Me Tomorrow; “Jupiter 4,” released c. 2019
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- “September tastes of ashes. And yet it insists. Softly. But it insists”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Autumn Psalm,”
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- "And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."
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- May 27
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– Jean-Paul Sartre
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- "Fall for them but don’t let them ruin you."
— Ernest Hemingway (via quotemadness)(via quotemadness)
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- "What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures."
— Gustave Flaubert (via quotemadness)(via quotemadness)
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- "Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want think about anymore."
— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories: “A Way You’ll Never Be,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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- "Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly."
— Charlotte Brontë (via quotemadness)(via quotemadness)
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- April 21
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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- "When I am with you, I fear no pain for my only pain is a pain of happiness."
— Forough Farrokhzad, from Sin: The Selected Poems of. F. F.; “Love Song,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
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- April 21
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New York, Photo by Leon Levinstein, c. 1952
(via sadyoungliterarygirls)
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- "I think I will always be lonely in this world,"
— Mary Oliver (via noorshirazie)(via noorshirazie)
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- “But the heart began to grieve, to ache, like an open wound.”
— Anna Akhmatova, from “Rachel” featured in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (trans by Judith Hemschemeyer)
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- April 19
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