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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)

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Taylor Swift - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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— Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), from Olivia.

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Mary Oliver, “Don't Hesitate.” Devotions

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loml - taylor swift

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

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when you feel bone deep sentiments towards a person vs their feelings being just on the surface level. like that shit HURTS

#personal

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“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

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“I have broken every rule I ever set for myself. And now I am busy, so busy, day and night, ruining my life.”

— Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

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Simone Weil on projection and how to lose your object with grace. From “Void and Compensation”

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Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet (1982)

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my boredom's bone-deep, this cage was once just fine... am i allowed to cry?

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me flirting with ttpd the whole weekend only to come back to folklore cz it's the best album ever

#but i would give ttpd my heart if it asked for it

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— Bon Iver, from “A song for a lover of long time ago.”

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so sick of being honest

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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004