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— Franz Kafka, Diaries 1910-1923

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

i’m tired of holding all of this

Text ID: —to fill myself up. I always feel like I’m eating when I’m reading. And the need to read (etc. etc.) is like an awful raging hunger. So that I often try to read two or three books at a time.

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Foreign Legion”, Collected Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die

— Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[text ID: … dearest, can you / tell, I am trying / to love you less.]

― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

Simone Weil, Letter to a Priest, trans. Frank Tobin

— Marina Cvetaeva