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Mona Sa’udi, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans Kamal Boullata)

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“It is hard to fight against anger, but harder still to fight against pleasure.”

— Heraclitus, in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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“One can fall in love and still hate.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via neckkiss)

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“The individual is the true reality in life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals. Man, the individual, has always been and, necessarily is the sole source and motive power of evolution and progress.”

— Emma Goldman, “The Individual, Society and the State”

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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

— Frank Herbert

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“Boredom is a kind of yearning towards an ideal pleasure.”

— Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Remarks)

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when sylvia plath said "I desire the things which will destroy me in the end" and sufjan stevens said "I hardly know who you are this time, and what a mess I've made of you" and jenny holzer said "protect me from what I want" and richard siken said "you try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen" and ocean vuong said "what this means is that I don’t know desire other than the need to be shattered & rebuilt"

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It is.

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Most of us are gifted with the ability to see the monsters hidden within another, but are unable to see past them. It takes a special kind of person to see the light inside of every living being.

— Lynette Simeone

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“Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections