homebody-falak-i

and I pray, and I hope.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from The Woman Destroyed; “The Woman Destroyed”

Text ID: love gave every moment of my life a meaning. Now it is hollow. Everything is hollow. Things are empty: time is empty. And so am I.

remanence-of-love

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Anais Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

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Clarice Lispector, from "Gertrudes asks for advice" in The Complete Stories

lunamonchtuna

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via lunamonchtuna)

free-my-mindd

Forgive yourself

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The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran (translated by Richard Howard)

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Mary Oliver, from “I worried”