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My conscience is tender towards the sky — towards infinity. And the sea; I’m burnt like grilled bone but the softness of the waves penetrates my entire being.

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Quote from letter (Selected Letters) by Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture - Quote published by 5 months ago ()

It’s not easy to leave one self and embrace another. Your freedoms will scar you. Maybe even kill you. Or one of your yous. Its okay though. There are more.

How many times do we die?

Words, like selves, are worth it.

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Quote from The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I see my own worthlessness and failure so clearly; and lie gazing into the depths of the misery of human life; and then one gets up and everything begins again and it’s all covered up […]

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Thursday, August 15, 1929
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Vita Sackville-West
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Quote from letter to Vita Sackville-West (August 15, 1929) (Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf) by Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I should be driven desperate if I knew who I was. I meet somebody who says “you’re this or that”, and I feel like I don’t want to be anything.

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Quote from Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

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Quote from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.

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Quote from Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

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Quote from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and say “This is not who I am. This is not what I want. I’m sorry, but you’ve mistaken me for somebody else.”

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Quote from I Wrote This For You by Iain Thomas in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

6. ‘i didn’t call him back because he likes his girls voiceless.’

5. ‘she’s beautiful but i don’t like to be around her for too long, she smells like loss

4. ‘i couldn’t love you, you were a small war.’

3. ‘i carry my fears on my body because i don’t want to leave them laying around’

2. ‘it’s not that he wants to be a liar, it’s just that he doesn’t know the truth.’

1. ‘she is lonely so she does lonely things’.

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Quote from Tumblr post (October 22, 2012) by Warsan Shire in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

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Quote from tweet (August 14, 2012) by Warsan Shire in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()