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— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

{Quote:Aldous Huxley, Brave New World/Alfred Lord Tennyson, from Maud, A Monodrama/Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet/Mary Shelley, Frankenstein/David wojnarowicz/Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”/HermannHesse, from a letter to Conrad Haussmann written c. July 1911 //paintings: Pinterest}

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

“I have dreamed about you everynight since the day you left.”

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

Jane O. Wayne // Kate Jacobs

Jeanette Winterson / Ashe Vernon / Clementine von Radics, "In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive" / P.D, "there is no absolution for the fallen, only dying" / Sky Ferreia, "Sad Dreams" / ? / Lidia Yuknavitch, "The Chronology of Water: a Memoir" / ?

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

It’s a strange feeling to look back at the past sometimes and see how some parts of life have simply dissolved into nothingness. And even though this poem might sound sad, I believe that being mindful of the transience of life actually helps us to feel all the preciousness and beauty of it.