“Leggo poesie a caso, leggo quasi senza pensare a quel che leggo. Quando incontro un verso triste, sento nell’anima come una carezza. Non che mi conforti la tristezza altrui; è che mi sento meno solo.”
— Ángel González
“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis / Jane Austen
Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel
you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.
I wish I wasn't, such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.
— N.M. Sanchez
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
اشرب قهوتك، واعتنق الصمت، ولا تأخذ الناس على محمل الجد.. لا تأخذ الحياة على عاتقك، ولا تبالغ في عاطفتك، ولا ترضي أحدًا رغمًا عنك.
Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will.
-Mahmoud Darwish
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“For the kind of people who never connect, it can be devastating to feel attached to someone. You have no idea how it happened or why. You wake up one day and realize they are an extension of you. And all you feel is fear, 'cause you don't want to let them down or worst, smother with your care.”
