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Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

[Text ID: “I can’t exist in a way that comforts you.”]

— Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”

Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel

I’m getting too emotional from this book.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964 - 1980

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, Warsan Shire

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: “Forgive me this old / habit. There is a danger / in making suffering / beautiful.”]

[Text ID: “Today you want nothing / because wanting / comes too close to feeling.”]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

that shit never ends