I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
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Going to a library with someone you love and sitting in a corner with your head propped up on their shoulder while you both are reading books in peace and calm is the most intimately wholesome thing ever.
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"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"
~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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when jane austen said "there are few people whom i really love, and still fewer of whom i think well" and when dostoyevsky said "the more i love mankind as a whole, the less i love individual people..."
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Babel, R.F Kuang
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I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from The Lady of the House of Love
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[Text id: when he says "ily", but Achilles once said "i would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and i deaf. i would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. and i would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion."]
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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Taylor Swift, gold rush / Laurent de la Hyre, The Fall of Icarus
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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}
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Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)
—Jack Kerouac
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"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange,
Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"
via southerncrossreview.org
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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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From Ghost Image by Hervé Guibert, 2014. We are reminded of our own project about photographs that conjure ghosts: The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.
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Babel, R.F Kuang
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