I wanted “peace,” to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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~ Journals of Sylvia Plath

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- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“He was entirely absorbed in contemplation of her. How pretty she seemed to him, lighted up by the rays of the setting sun.”

— Anton Chekhov, from Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; “A Living Chattel”

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~ Bianca Sparacino, “The Strength In Our Scars”

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

~ James Baldwin

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― William Chapman

once Fredrich Nietzsche said “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature” while Fyodor Dostoevsky said “how gladly I watched the summer fade, the leaves turn yellow on the trees, and the grass dry out over the wide steppe! summer is gone at last! the winds of autumn howl and groan, the first snow falls in whirling flakes.”

“Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

when Oscar Wilde said, “I can resist anything except temptation”, and “the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

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