I know that I am ruined and that I’m ruining others…
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Fydoror Dostoevsky, from The Complete Works; “The Insulted and Humiliated,”
Little words can mean
death or life sometimes.
Sophocles, from Elektra, trans. Anne Carson, ‘An Oresteia’.
In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
Charles Baudelaire
Never, never must we fail to seek meaning in the unending content of each day. It exists, it is what we are given; we must treasure its givenness, even though it contains only little things, petty things.
Olga Freidenberg, from an unsent letter to Boris Pasternak c. 1927
Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“— because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan written c. January 1831
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Love yourself as much as you love your favorite band member
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