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“Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead’.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“40. Beautiful Things
They say you're overly sensitive. That your heart sits too comfortably at the precipice, ready to plummet at the slightest provocation. An unkind word can send you spiraling. A perceived indifference shakes you down to your core. You don't know why you absorb feelings so readily, even when they aren't your own. But one day, you will learn to appreciate the gift you have been given. To live in peace with your sentimentality and, from this raw and tender place, create the most beautiful things.”
― Lang Leav, The Gift of Everything

“It is a terrible thing
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees