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I’m still here, you know.

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But I [asked] for a proof of God. And I smelled the most intense thing, an overwhelmingly intense fragrance of roses.

Clarice Lispector, from “The Dead Man in the Sea at Urca”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

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She grows solitary as a tree or as a creek nobody knows, walking thus between an end and a beginning as if ageless or in a dream.

Gabriela Mistral, from She Who Walks (tr. by Randall Couch)

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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”

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from caroline polachek’s ‘ocean of tears’ music video .

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“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli

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“Time! Time that gives everything but itself, / Time that steals everything but the heart– / It caught in the throat / To see it light down all around us like a young girl’s dress, / And we were the mystery underneath it:”

— Denis Johnson, from “The Skewbald Horse“ The Veil: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)

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Ornella Muti in publicity still for Swann in Love, 1984

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orchid22__

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you feel it, don’t you? the blinding rage, the lust for revenge. why do you deny your own nature? it calls to you, I know it does. your name sounds especially haunting on the tongue of obliteration.

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Crows - Acrylic and gold leaf on wood Available on my Redbubble

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A dream I had the other night.