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    Amir Khusrau
    “Farsi Couplet:
    Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
    Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.


    English Translation:
    If there is a paradise on earth,
    It is this, it is this, it is this”
    ― Amir Khusrau, The Writings of Amir Khusrau: 700 Years After the Prophet: A 13th-14th Century Legend of Indian-Sub-Continent
    tags: amirkhusro, farsi, hindi-poem, indian-authors, mysticism, mysticism-sufi-wisdom, sufism
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    DaShanne Stokes
    “Love should never mean having to live in fear.”
    ― DaShanne Stokes
    tags: afraid, bisexual, bisexual-erasure, bisexual-invisibility, bisexual-issues, bisexuality, bisexuals, denial, fear, fear-quotes, fearless, gay, gay-marriage, gay-rights, gay-romance, hate, hate-crime, hate-crimes, lesbian, lesbian-partners, lesbians, lgbt, lgbt-quotes, lgbt-rights, lgbtq, lgbtqia, love, love-is-love, love-quote, love-quotes, same-sex-attraction, same-sex-love, same-sex-marriage, same-sex-marriages, same-sex-relationships, terror
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    Charles Bukowski
    “the tired sunsets and the tired
    people -
    it takes a lifetime to die and
    no time at
    all.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: die, lifetime, people, sunsets, time, tired
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  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Gillian Flynn
    “A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: dark
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Hiro Arikawa
    “My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.”
    ― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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    James Baldwin
    “for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: freedom
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Men have used her meanly. She will eat them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees
    tags: gender, men, power, women
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    Donna Tartt
    “I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: cities, places
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Richard Siken
    “You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
    ― richard siken
    tags: love
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    Olivie Blake
    “He kisses her, thinks, Go on, ruin me. Wreck me, please. She kisses him back and she does.”
    ― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “There was majesty and grace in the pace of the swaying branches of the willows. There was kindness. Pain is not the only touchstone for growth, I said to myself. My sleep had worked. I was soft and calm and felt things. This was good. This was my life now.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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  • #21
    “To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.”
    ― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
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    Richard Siken
    “Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
    These, our bodies, possessed by light.
    Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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    Richard Siken
    “Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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  • #24
    Ocean Vuong
    “When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    768 likes



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