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the sluttiest thing a man can do is be fictional

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[Text ID: “But let me be unseen.”]

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Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Hoopoe,”

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One of my favorite things about Jane Austen is that she knew the real fear wasn’t running into some terrifying Frenchman or finding your lover’s wife in the attic…it was having to spend time with someone who is slighter cooler than you are, or playing piano in front of a critical audience, or thinking a picnic will be the perfect time for your jokes but then it isn’t

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look at you. you're young. you're scared. why are you so scared? stop being paralysed. stop swallowing your words. stop caring about what other people think. wear what you want. say what you want. listen to the music you want to listen to. play it as loud as you can and dance to it. go out for a drive at midnight and forget you have to work the next day. stop waiting for friday. live now. do it now. this life is yours, make it yours.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, from “La Nausée”

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Hugh Grant in Love Actually (2003)

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i don’t think people love me. they love versions of me i have spun for them, versions of me they construed in their minds. the easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love. 

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Everyone doesn’t need access to you. Some people are draining and they don’t even know it. You’re allowed to say no, you’re allowed to not answer calls, you’re allowed to break plans, and if you need to save yourself do it.