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“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Goodbye to Love - Carpenters (A Song for You, 1972)

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“I was ashamed when I realized that life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.”

— Franz Kafka

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"The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again."

—A tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

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Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

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“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus; The Fall

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audrey emmett

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Young Girl on a Red Carpet, 1912. Felice Casorati

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but this body is home, my childhood is buried here, my sleep rises and sets inside, desire crested and wore itself thin between these bones - I live here.

- Lisel Mueller, from "A Nude by Edward Hopper," Poetry (July 1967)

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Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | 2021

Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz

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"August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy - as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart"

~from Letters of Summer Past (Listy Tamtego Lata)