"There is something in a lost love that is sweet to remember, even though it was purchased with a thousand tears."
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
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Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Heart Under A Cassock,"
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"Armenian Sketches", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)
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[I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.]
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If you’re at a loss for words - take care in silence.
Some woeful fillings
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Marin Majić (German, 1979) - Safe from Sorrow (2023)
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Alexander McQueen savage beauty 2011
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I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
C.S. Lewis
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Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "In the dark"
[Text ID: "In the sorrowful sky / a star was burning / a star was falling / a star was dying"]
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I understand your discouragements, your sorrows... If you can't write anymore, do what you want, I will always understand. Of course, it will be sad on days without you. But I trust and love you. Don't let yourself go too far into inertia though. Don't forget me completely. In any case, give up your imaginations about your platitudes or your wrongdoings. I want your letters and I am only looking for the palpitation, the flame, the impetus. I am looking for the signs, the secret that runs through your beautiful face.
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 9, 1950 [#181]
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Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, tr. by Sam Bett and David Boyd // Louise Glück, Adult Grief // Horace Vernet, The Maiden’s Lament (oil on canvas) // Mona Sa’udi, “When the loneliness of the tomb,” from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women, tr. by Kamal Boullata // Photography by 西游朽 (xiuxiukong) // Mark Strand, "Keeping Things Whole" from Selected Poems by Mark Strand, 1979 // Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, 1978 (paraphrased) // Graveyard statue in Coburg, Germany // Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (paraphrased) // Bust of Alexander the Great, found in Palazzo Massimo courtyard, Lancellotti, Rome
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