lifeinproseandpoetry

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“I go scarcely anywhere. Everything seems tiresome.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Maria Issayev written c. June 1855

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (Isleworth, Friday, 3 November 1876)

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“May you know the softness that comes from being well-loved.”

— India Ame’ye, Author (via eatmangoesnekkid)

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“I only write when I am falling in love, or falling apart.”

—Rudy F.

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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. IV: 1944-1947

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November, 1937 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

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Semi-motivational quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983) by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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they should invent a life that is liveable and a sleep that comes easy and a winter that doesn't feel like decay and a spring that doesn't feel like the past and a head that doesn't hurt and a heart that doesn't sit in your chest like a rock and a body that doesn't hate you and a hometown that doesn't make you lose your mind and a university that won't kill you they should invent a me that is normal I think that would be really neat. ok good night I love you

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

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For more Palestinian poems -- Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly (who are also on here @ arablit) have produced and are updating a resource of Palestinian writers and the work they have produced called "Palestinian Poems with & for the Now" mostly written in the last four months.

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“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

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“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Unknown