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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

—Franz Kafka (via silkseas, fleurisms) (via fr0zen) (via silverfawn)

“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”

—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations  (via youngfolksociety)

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“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.”

—Anna Kamienska, from “A Nest of Quiet,”.   (via youngfolksociety)

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“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack.”

—Tana French, The Likeness  (via akkachan)

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“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”

—Alan Watts (via wearetheriverflow)

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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”

—Catherine Breillat  (via anemolia)

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