“Kiss the scar.”— Paul Celan, tr. by Beth Bjorklung, from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle; “Here,”
“I long for peace, solitude: (…)”— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
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“We grow. It hurts at first.”— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Have you ever had that feeling— that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
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Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“(Yet I sob, I paw. Yet) I kiss.”— Yanyi, excerpt of “Decrescence”, in The Year of Blue Water
““When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.””— Thich Nhat Hanh (via goodreadss)
Free as solitude, yet neither alone.
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C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via the-book-diaries)
my kink is closing doors so that i am in complete solitude