Banana Yoshimoto, From Her Novel Titled "The Premonition," Originally Published In 2015

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

He literally laid down right in front of me, I am so blessed.

Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures (trans. Stefan Tobler) [ID'd]

And then—you walked in.

You, with your glittering chaos.

The oracle who keeps unfolding

Can I still be good and want you?

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.

" Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. "

- C. G. Jung

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