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Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf 

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“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.”

— Law of Attraction

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“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood.”

— Brad Meltzer

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Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno

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“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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   —  Anna Akhmatova, "The Sentence," from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer

[text ID: Today I have so much to do: / I must kill memory once and for all, / I must turn my soul to stone, / I must learn to live again—]

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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Gustav Jung

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“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”

— Rudy Francisco

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I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous – I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⁠— 3rd May 1958

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How much of life I have known: love, disillusion, madness, hatred, murderous passions. 

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 29th September 1959

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Stop continuously trying to change the outer world in a way that it always brings peace to you. You will never succeed, and you will lose so much of your precious energy.

Use your precious energy to change your inner world instead, so that whatever arises in the outer world, it will not affect your inner peace.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

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"So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?"

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— To a Young Poet, Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Fady Joudah)

[text ID: A poem in a difficult time / is beautiful flowers in a cemetery.]

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embrace, peter wever

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Grief is the only proof that I love and I love well. Love and grief are actually intertwined with each other and as "Akif Kichloo" once wrote, "the opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love."

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot