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"I take great pleasure in being alone. Perhaps it is because by doing so I remove the pain that people give me. Perhaps it is the strongest pleasure I know." — Virginia Woolf

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Graham was always the guy I would talk to about stuff. And that night I found myself wanting to tell him about this great afternoon I’d had. It was like I wanted to talk to him about him. - Daisy Jones & The Six

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Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "Hymn To Beauty,"

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Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Pig Song," featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. October 1931 featured in The Diaries of Virginia Woolf

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INTERSTELLAR | 2014 dir. Christopher Nolan

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Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

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Franz Kafka, from a journal entry featured in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1917-1919)

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the great war x dbatc mashup - taylor swift

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D.H. Lawrence, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence wr. in November 1923

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Only back then we were tight, sisters practically.

JENNIFER'S BODY — 2009, dir. Karyn Kusama

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Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

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Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

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“Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, scraped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.”

— On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong