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nothing more attractive than calm men who can bring you comfort

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Joanna Klink, from “On Diminishment”, The Nightfields

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

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a quiet resignation. tathev simonyan

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Heaven - Mieko Kawakami

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my desire to be hidden from the world just keeps intensifying

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Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free and kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To stop irritation by the assurance that nothing is worth irritation. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 2 January 1931, featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. V 1936-1941

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Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Vera Slonim, written c. January 1924 featured in Letters to Véra

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

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Zheng Zenduo, transl. by Herbert Batt, from The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry; "Distractions,"

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Id like to do this with him someday (he doesn’t even know I like him)

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little kids are so wholesome it makes me so happy and also sad because I’ll never experience that age again

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@academia-lucifer

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i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

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— anonymous

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Marie Howe, from “What the Living Do”, What the Living Do