echo at the feet of narcissus - writing of wenyi xue

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navigating my complex relationship with the concept of "love"

the knight of the flowers - georges rochegrosse “I didn’t mean to eavesdrop,” my roommate tells me after I hang up the phone, “but you said something like I wish you could see yourself how I see you. Except if you saw yourself how I see you, you’d be the biggest narcissist in the world, so maybe not. And I wanted to know if I could tell my girlfriend the same thing.” I think: maybe I was meant to be a poet. Or: a lover. Sometimes they’re the same thing. I let her borrow my words. I borrow my own words, I write: if you could even feel an ounce of how you look in my eyes, the world would…

echo at the feet of narcissus - writing of wenyi xue

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