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often we act as if we have only two things - the place we need to get to and the disappointment of not having reached there. in our desperate attempt to run away from what we deem undesirable, we miss the grandeur of little things. a morning coffee. flowers in your backyard. birds chirping.

hope amd happiness are always lingering in every corner and present themselves as these small miracles. the question is are you determined enough to look out for them ?

today try finding pleasure in the person you are and the one you are transforming because every moment of the journey is "in in itself a delightful suspended moment of living hope"

- NOX

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something so dizzying about being kissed in a dream. faraway and transient ofc in its non-existence and yet. lingering?? you wake up with your mouth full of that imaginary thing. you wake up still slow and timeless and wondering. milk and half-eaten apple. there’s simply no core to throwaway

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recognize each story filled differently. as a plethora where each substance more or less explored. each field of knowledge [something]to gain from the careful mixing of paint/colours

where substances are in the millions, and each substance a plethora in itself

potentiality

- xilaristw

something i found while scrolling through goodreads

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The moment you realize what's beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

- Iqbal

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some quotes i love

"Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to pe a person?"

- Clarice Lispector

"It takes a great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and to still love it"

- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red"

- Kait Rokowski

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The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

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نون و گلدون‎ (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)

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~to lost friendships~

i miss our conversations

how your words flowed clearly like water and how mine stumbled

i miss how we talked about our disappointments and regrets - the only time i laid my heart bare 

i miss how you taught me so much about myself.

1) how my eyes crinkled when i smile 

2) yes i might not be good at clicking photos 

3) but you also taught me the cruellest word i know - lonely 

my loneliness has been gnawing at me 

i have only let a few souls into my life. each carefully examined. you were the first one i rushed to with open arms. 

but now i can only crave comfort and familiarity. i am surviving by lurking in corners. 

you can find me cracking jokes with everyone. offering words in every conversation. as if that is the only way i can speak - in bits and pieces because i don't have anyone who would listen to my speech in its entirety 

we haven't talked in months and i wish we could 

every day i dream to curl into moments of time when we walked back from school together. i am tired of the immense grief lodged in my bones. i don't want to remain a secluded sea. let's become the gulls flying high up in the air - embodying the spirit of Hermes, dear to both of us 

so when will you call me back?

- NOX

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یہ سوچ لو اب آخری سایہ ہے محبت

اس در سے اٹھوگے تو کوئی در نہ ملے گا

ye soch lo ab akhiri saaya hai mohabbat, is dar se uthoge to koi dar na milega

Keep in mind that, now love is the last shelter. If you leave this door you won't find any.

— Bashir Badar, bheegi howi ankon ka ye manzar na milega

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Kafka wrote "it would be better if you didn't come, since you have to leave again" but Faraz sahab wrote " Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa, aa phir se mujhe chor jaane ke liye aa"

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I love art journaling so much and the process of turning blank pages into beautiful spreads. hope you like these <3

- NOX

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Mary Ruefle

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तुम्हें चाह कर भी ना चाहे

करे जो मनमानी ये मन ना माने

मिली ये जो यादें मिल के अब बाटे

तेरे नाम

- from a song called बारात by Ritviz

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we're happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time

it's miserable and magical oh yeahhh

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shyaam gulabi, shehar gulabi

pehar gulabi hai gulabi yeh shehar

main bhi gulabi

tu hai gulabi

din bhi gulabi hai gulabi ye kehar

- a song called gulabi (shuddh desi romance)

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life