“That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”
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Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'
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"Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality."
– Nizar Qabbani
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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
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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice
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"My biggest trouble is that people look at me and think that no serious trouble has ever troubled my little head. They seldom realize the chaos that seethes behind my exterior."
- Sylvia Plath
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
— Marcel Proust
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