“She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story.”
—
Edith Wharton
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Hearts like yours understand everything because they contain everything.
Victor Hugo, from a letter to Victor Pavie written c. September 1843
…a dark angel whispering to me to be easy on myself.
Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems: 1976 – 1986; “Half-Hanged Mary,”
—Belong to me!
Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. Holland wr. c. November 1860
“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”
— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
“Alas, how little the heart forgets—”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, January 6, 1923
Cold November nights, poignant sensations, deep, resonant silence,
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry ft. in “Diaries,” written c. November 1940
“I want to melt into you, to be so terribly close to you that my own self disappears.”
— Anaïs Nin to June Miller, c. February 1932 (via loveage-moondream)
I feel I might dissolve.
Megan Terry, from “Approaching Simone,” first produced in March 1970
“And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.”
— Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Stanley Pennell
(via violentwavesofemotion)
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