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You tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake You can't make homes out of human beings. Some one should have already told you that.

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Ottessa Moshfegh, from "Eileen: A Novel," originally published in 2015

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Henrik Ibsen, from Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen; "Peer Gynt," written in 1867

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Alice Notley // Warsan Shire

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head not empty, many abstract uncommunicable thoughts

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Be a Dostoyevsky character: rot in your room! <3

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Charles Bukowski, Barfly

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shout out to the two molecules of serotonin dragging me through life

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We are writers, my love. We don't cry, we bleed on paper.

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Li-Young Lee, from "Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet", The Undressing: Poems

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Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

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Hope is the hardest love we carry.

(from Jane Hirshfield's piece, Hope and Love)

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Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

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Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan