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“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”

— Konrad Adenauer

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“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (via quotespile)

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“And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”

— Robyn Schneider

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There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand at all. I can't tell what I think about things or what I'm after. I don't know what my strengths are or what I'm supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary.

— Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat to China

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“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”

— Stephen Chbosky

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“And it is characteristic of the devil to be recognized too late.”

― Hélène Cixous, First Days of the Year (trans. Catherine A. F. Macgillivray)

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

- Franz Kafka

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“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” - Søren Kierkegaard

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O Eurydice, (…) Who knows what you’ll tell the furies when you see them again. Tell them I have lost my beloved; I am completely alone now. Tell them there is no music like this without real grief.

Louise Glück, from Orfeo in “Poems 1962-2012” (via adrasteiax)

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“And if the angel says: Do you know life? / Then I must say: Life devours”

— — Rainer Maria Rilke, Irschenhausen, September 1914, Poems to Night, tr. Will Stone

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“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.”

— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars (via perfeqt)

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she sits in the living room disappearing into herself / until one day she’ll be lost to them for ever

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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it must have been so traumatic, to lose his home, his family, his friends, his culture, his first language, and to come to a country that didn’t want him

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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Doing something, he had discovered, anything, however small, that contributed to your meaningfulness of self and surroundings —well, that was the trick. That was the trick to not feel like shit.

Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

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The saddest time that has also been one of the happiest times in my life will pass. And I’ll be alone.

Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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The meaning of life is that it stops. Of course it would have been a writer who came up with the answer. Of course that writer would have been Kafka.

Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through 

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The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, ‘What are you going through?'

Simone Weil

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