The journal
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Literature · Reflection
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to o
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Literature · Reflection
At the Breakfast Table with the Morning Newspaper, L. A. Ring, 1898
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Literature · Reflection
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you ut
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Literature · Reflection
Portrait of Varya Adoratskaya Nikolai Fechin – Date unknown
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Literature · Reflection
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” ― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Separation. Edvard Munch. 1896.
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Literature · Reflection
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” ― Vladimir Nabokov
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Literature · Reflection
“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” Oscar Wilde
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Literature · Reflection
“The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.” ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces The Swan of Tuonela Akseli Gallen-Kallela – 1904-1905
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