justbeinlovewithyourself

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— unknown

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— Gwen Benaway

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Tell me, what should I do besides crying for you?

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— unknown

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Joaquín Nin, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

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— J. W. Goethe

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Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "The Anguish," originally published in 2018

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— Lina A.

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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— Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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Henry Miller, from a letter featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse; Fragments [translated by Richard Howard]

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— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

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Can't you see just how much I adore you

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf,”