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Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "West Wind," featured in Devotions: Selected Poems
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— fatima aamer bilal; coffin heart? bury me.
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— Clarice Lispector: A Sincere Friendship
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Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975
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If I may: the ordinary, small, stupid human being never dies. A small person is everlasting, even without your help. Smallness multiplies without rest, like flies or mice. Only greatness dies. Only strength and talent die, because they cannot be replaced.
— Karel Čapek, The Makropulos Secret
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“Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.”
— Jean Paul Sartre - from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir
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— Marie Howe, Magdalene: “Walking Home”
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— Marie Howe, Magdalene: “Walking Home”
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Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!
[Text ID: Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.]
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Philosophy - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (1st) Oil on canvas, 100x120cm
Ideal - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (2nd) Oil on canvas
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But as I was sitting here balancing the books, it occurred to me that history is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, i.e., of everyone.
— Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
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