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22 January, 1973 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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1 February, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

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“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.”

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@ninotbh

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-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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Janet Fitch, from her novel titled "White Oleander," originally published in 1999

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— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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

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🎬 Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)