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#1

“I don鈥檛 know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

tags: night-sky-with-exit-wounds, ocean-vuong

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#2

“Then, we were still. We did not move, because we could not. We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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#3

“I鈥檓 lonely,鈥� he says aloud, and the silence of the apartment absorbs the words like blood soaking into cotton.

He is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. He cannot unlearn the feeling.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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#4

“After all, I absorb the world around me, and that鈥檚 changing all the time. Just as all the water that was in my body last time we met has now been replaced with new water, the things that make up me have changed too.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

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#5

“It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: loneliness, privacy

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#6

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#7

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it鈥檚 headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

tags: interaction, loneliness, poem, poetry

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#8

“I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

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#9

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

2330 likes

#10

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: love

93 likes

#11

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

tags: self-delusion

262 likes

#12

“I guess it can鈥檛 be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they鈥檙e making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

tags: laughter, love, relationships

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#13

“It's astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body - the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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#14

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#15

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

tags: love, naivete, optimism, romance, soul-mate, youth

52 likes

#16

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

2159 likes

#17

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

142 likes

#18

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni鈥檚 Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

1835 likes

#19

“For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves?”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

tags: fallen, leaves, words

59 likes

#20

“She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: grief, poignant

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#21

“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

140 likes

#22

“He laughs despite knowing he has ruined every beautiful thing just to prove beauty cannot change him.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

35 likes

#23

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

3891 likes

#24

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#25

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn鈥檛 shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: racism

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#26

“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it鈥檚 fucked up for you, in the same way that we鈥檝e already recognized that it鈥檚 fucked up for us. I don鈥檛 need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”
― Fred Moten

tags: feminism, racism, the-undercommons

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#27

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. (p. 1)”
― Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

tags: futurity, lgbtq, queerness, utopia

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#28

“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.
It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

tags: childhood-suffering, innocence

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#29

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: empowerment, freedom

34 likes

#30

“Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.”
― Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

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