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#1

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

#2

“A veces creo que nada tiene sentido. En un planeta minúsculo, que corre hacia la nada desde millones de años, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, nos enfermamos, sufrimos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, mueren y otros están naciendo para volver a empezar la comedia inútil.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

245 likes

#3

“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, fear, love, neglect, parental-abuse, parenting, ptsd, secrecy, self-esteem, trauma

137 likes

#4

“my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame”
― Voltaire, Micromegas

51 likes

#5

“Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, from death does not prevent the Beloved from having lived.
That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

tags: love, unrequited-love

27 likes

#6

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
― Simone Weil

tags: human-nature

549 likes

#7

“As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”
― Damon Galgut, The promise

19 likes

#8

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

426 likes

#9

“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: mother, son, writing

433 likes

#10

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women

1824 likes

#12

“Every field has its technological advances and evolves in the direction that reduces the amount of physical labour required, but people are particularly reluctant to admit that the same is true for domestic labor.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

tags: domestic-labour, feminism

18 likes

#14

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8465 likes

#15

“Humans are by nature romantic creatures. By that I don’t mean full of love: I mean that they like the idea of things more than the reality of them.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

5 likes

#16

“I burnt as in a fire in her presence ... but what did I care to know what the fire was in which I burned and melted--it was enough that it was sweet to burn and melt.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love

tags: love

74 likes

#18

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

3684 likes

#19

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20155 likes

#20

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

81 likes

#21

“Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can’t quite make it all the way up to the brain.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

303 likes

#22

“L'amitié a des grandeurs inconnues de l'amour. Elle se fortifie dans les difficultés, alors que les contraintes massacrent l'amour. Elle résiste au temps qui laisse et désunit les couples. Elle a des élévations inconnues de l'amour.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

tags: friendship

9 likes

#24

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

1253 likes

#25

“Fame is the enemy of instinct and spontaneity, the difference between what is said and what ought to be said, and the transformation of one person into two”
― Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

48 likes

#26

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

389 likes

#27

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10906 likes

#29

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

169 likes

#30

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1396 likes

#31

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

313 likes

#32

“La conciencia de las fronteras geopolíticas pronto conduce a preguntas sobre las muchas líneas que cruzamos—o las que no cruzamos, o las que no tenemos permitido cruzar—, mientras seguimos adelante con nuestra vida diaria. Nuestros cuerpos son llaves que abren sólo ciertas puertas. De hecho nuestros cuerpos hablan y nuestros huesos son nuestro último testimonio.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, La cresta de Ilión

3 likes

#33

“Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen.”
― Simone Weil, La Condition ouvrière

tags: publicidad, publicity

1 likes

#34

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: companionship, privacy, solitude

1108 likes

#35

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7131 likes

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