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“Creating yourself is a source of great pride, but it also leads to a feeling of having no foundations. I’ve known many gifted children of immigrants who have a sense of being lilies growing in a swamp—beautiful flowers but no deep roots.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

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“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: atlas, hurt, painful

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“French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: “Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.” As”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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“It may be the case, she said, that it is only when it is too late to escape that we see we were free all along.”
― Rachel Cusk, Kudos

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“I don't run for my physical health, though that's a lucky side effect. I run because I'm tortured inside. I run to soothe the violence in my mind, the depression, the panic, the disappointments, the shame, the frustration, the helplessness against time. You could say I'm running from something... though I'd rather think I'm running TOWARD something. Though I'm probably running just to stay in one place. It seems like most of life is just maintenance, after all.”
― Gabrielle Bell, The Voyeurs

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