soracities:

12. Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.ALT

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

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metamorphesque:

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— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh

[text ID: So often, in the past too, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.]

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quarrelets-of-pearl:

Am really trying everyday to be a better person

quarrelets-of-pearl:

Well I’m still toxic as ever🙂🙂🙂

quarrelets-of-pearl:

I’m tired of hurting people that don’t deserve it

2septembrie:

Romantic relationship with rough sex

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feral-ballad:

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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “Take my horse and slaughter it”

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