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الفلاسفة والحب - من سقراط إلى سيمون دي بوفوار

“They were only speaking the part of god that they themselves could glimpse. And this truth was only as small as they themselves were small.”

— Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck (2016) (via lunamonchtuna)

Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

haiku #6, tathev simonyan

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

there is something 2 be said about how rodya killed the pawnbroker with the blunt end of the axe. Like hes so extremely repressed that even in that single moment of energy and animalistic violence he was still 'holding back' by not using the sharp blade.

It would have made it more real to him, if he used the sharp end. Thats what mass murderers and slaughterers do, and hes not one of them, hes different.

Anaïs Nin, from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Oh, Canada (2024)

sorry for the alyosha posting it will happen again

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

I am not meant for casual love. I was born for soul consuming love and obsession.

"ماذا تطوي في قلبك حتى فاض على سيماك؟"

-صلاح عبد الصبور

i miss mitya karamazov so fucking much no one threatened suicide like him

Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Prodigal Son." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman" in Selected Poems

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021