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Taiwan, 1999 Taitung, Taiwan. 台湾 台東市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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Tokyo, 1989 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. 日本 東京都 新宿区 西新宿 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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Rosy afternoons 🌷

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“I think the story presents Maria’s acute awareness of life’s uncertainty as the main reason behind her melancholy at the beginning. By the end it becomes salvation, the answer to life’s fragility. In allowing oneself to be as vulnerable and attune to the pain that loss or change might bring we are able to sincerely feel without masking or deflecting. Only in doing so can we live life to the fullest.” — reading journal entry excerpt for Banana Yoshimoto’s Goodbye Tsugumi

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Ernest Bachrach - Ethel Smith (1945)

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i do this to u

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Emily Jungmin Yoon, "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today" from A Cruelty Special to Our Species. 

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and a wickeder, wickeder, wickeder witch that never, never was

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the council will decide your fate

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Margaret Atwood, from “Their Attitudes Differ”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

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“She walked to work every day feeling starkly, conspicuously alone. It seemed that everyone else on the street had someone to keep them company, someone to laugh with and confide in and nudge in the ribs. All those packs of young girls who’d already figured everything out.”

— Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl

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“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.”

— Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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“It seems, after all, that there are no nonpeculiar people.”

— Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift

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Paul Delaroche - The Young Martyr (1855)