— Rainer Maria Rilke, Were You Not Always Distracted
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{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}
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you never truly appreciate the intimacy of the expression “I'll gut you like a fish” until you actually gut a fish
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― Circe, Madeline Miller
[text ID: But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.]
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"I Loved You", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Antony Wood)
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— René Girard, from “Violence and the Sacred”, originally published c. 1972.
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the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
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Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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james baldwin, another country
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on winter and longing
Sarah Kay, Natalie Diaz, Craig Keenan, Clarice Lispector, Mahmoud Darwish, Brittany Cossette, Franz Kafka, Edvard Munch, Richard Siken, Haruki Murakami, Holly Warburton, Mahmoud Darwish
buy me a coffee
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Vincent van Gogh - Four Swifts with Landscape Sketches
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Ari Banias, from Anybody: Poems; “Bouquet”
[Text ID: “Today you want nothing / because wanting / comes too close to feeling.”]
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— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami
[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]
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