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— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Noelle Kocot, from 4; "Sappho to Erinna," originally published in May 2021

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Essential Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva; "For Anna Akhmatova,"

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— Donte Collins

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night

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Sylvia Plath

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Nina Mclaughlin, from "Wake, Siren," originally published in November 2019

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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

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The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

- Charles Bukowski

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— nizariat