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“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” ― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

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“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag

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the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

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“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a streetlamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal’s black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, A Letter That Never Reached Russia

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

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The promise is not really for anything more than an escape from pain. It's for something different, something better—but ultimately something unattainable. – David Foster Wallace

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written by kaveh akbar

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“As you get older you start doing things in reverse. You start cutting people out from your life. Your Christmas list becomes practically nonexistent. You don’t need to be the first in line for everything. You take less pictures because some memories are best kept in your heart and not your hard drive. And instead of looking for love, you dig for it from within.”

— bookmarks in my life (via c0ntemplations)

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“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

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Do you ever feel like this forever? I’d like to feel like this for a very long time.

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Matthew Rohrer, “Credo” [ID in ALT]

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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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amyalicemillerr

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𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯.

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I am all the places I have loved in my life. – Silvina Ocampo

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“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.” ― Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune

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I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved