Louise Glück, from Persephone The Wanderer in "Poems 1962-2012"
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“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
— Tom Bodett
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– Unknown
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“I’d love to be in love.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Afternoon Tea by Sydney Smith / Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
— C.S. Lewis
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I have strong moral codes concerning libraries btw
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— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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mary oliver
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-Yiwei Chai, the jacaranda years
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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot explain it to myself."
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“The courage it took to get out of bed this morning to face the same things over and over was enormous”
-Charles Bukowski
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me”
-Franz Kafka
“People empty me , I have to get away to refill”
-Charles Bukowski
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