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14/04/24

"The wind is gentle. We breathe the scent of water."

- Janet Lewis; Lake George, on The Mohican

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06/04/23

"[...] completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy."

- Pride & Prejudice (2005)

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06/04/24

"Let me hold your heart like a flower"

- Anne Sexton; Rapunzel

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06/04/24

"[...] the whole springtime is filled with you…"

- Rainer Maria Rilke; The Duino Elegies

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02/04/24

"It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world."

- Shirley Jackson; We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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24/04/23

"April this year, not otherwise

Than April of a year ago,

Is full of whispers, full of sighs"

- Edna St. Vincent Millay; Song of a Second April

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24/04/23

"How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday still in me?"

- Leonard Cohen; Beautiful Losers

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24/04/23

"Stories don't end. They only go their separate ways. We take leave of them, not knowing what comes after.

Tulip Fever (2017)

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31/03/24

"I have always loved you sombre forest

of my life."

- Giorgio De Chirico; The Collected Poems

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17/03/24

"[...] how I still, sometimes, crave understanding."

- Mary Oliver; Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

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31/03/24

"How many days have again gone silently by?"

- Franz Kafka; Diaries

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25/03/24

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

- William Shakespeare; Troilus and Cressida

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31/03/24

"A weed is but an unloved flower!"

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox; The Weed

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25/03/24

"At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen."

- Gustave Flaubert; Madame Bovary

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25/03/24

"I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise."

- Anaïs Nin; The Dairy of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

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25/03/24

"But poetry is my love, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face."

- Anne Sexton (quoted by Arthur Furst); Anne Sexton: The Last Summer

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25/03/24

"Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Brothers Karamazov