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Forgive me if I loved you so violently and so madly, for violence is my weapon to write and my weapon when I love. And madness is the last gold ring I place on your fingers.

Nizar Qabbani, tr. by Nayef al-Kalali, from Republic of Love: Selected Poems; “Love of 1994”

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رميت كل قواميس في النار وسميت لغتي.

I threw all of my dictionaries in the fire and named you my language.

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"I feel like I'm in the midst of a war, and both its sides are me."

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Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another

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he came as if he was a soul for my soul

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{Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Susan Sontag/ Liv Ullmann, from Changing (Knopf, 1976)/ Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated December 14, 1919, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics, 1977)/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Richard Siken/ Papi/ Anais Nin/ Ghada Al-Samman/ Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings}

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ان كان مكتوب علينا نفارق القمر

‎هنفارق القمر

‎وان كان حكم القدر

‎الحيره والسهر

‎نسهر من غير قمر

If it is destined for us to bid the moon farewell, we will. And if the verdict of fate is confusion and staying up all night, we‘ll stay up all night with no moon.

Sabah, Ashka we meskena

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Vlasta Fialová in Divá Bára / Wild Barbara (1949) dir. by Vladimír Čech.

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She held him secretly, possessively, in her heart with such a strength of passion that at times it was hard to believe that he was a separate person with other concerns who knew and cared nothing about how she felt.

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Philosopher's Pupil'

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Gustave Moreau The Angels of Sodom 1890

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Erika L. Sánchez, from “La Cueva”, Lessons on Expulsion

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— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”