And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
Charles Bukowski
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When Ray Bradbury said, "How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?" And when Kafka said, "Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself." And when Florence said, "I thought that love was a kind of emptiness and at least I understood then, the hunger I felt; and I didn't have to call it loneliness."
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he’s sooooo like me
I think kafka’s diaries are the strongest evidence that journaling is not necessarily good for your mental health
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please stop expecting me to actually go to sleep when i say “goodnight.” the moon is awake and therefore so am i
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" I'm afraid of getting older. I'm afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day - spare me from the rent less cage of routine and rote. I want to be free.... I want, I want to think, to be omniscient."
- Sylvia Plath, 1949 at the age of seventeen
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I am aware, sure, I am aware.
Catastrophically aware.
Sylvia Plath, from "The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath"
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from love as an act of merciful conquer by silas denver melvin
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[Text ID: “you want to be loved if only to prove it possible: to tell the world that someone saw you as a conquest & came back alive. that above all else, you are worthy of the risk, the effort. you want someone to serve you the evidence: (in italics) you are not as damned as you think you are. you are not as damned as you think you are (end italics)”. /End ID]
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Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, Mural
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Kahlil Gibran, from Beloved Prophet: The love letters of Kahlil Gibran and Marry Haskell, and her private journal
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WORKING FOR THE KNIFE - Mitski's Statement
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― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
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—Lilllium, from In Place Of The Mirror is a Portait of You
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Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
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Charles Bukowski, Pulp
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A lot to reflect upon
gong yoo is real and he is out there
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