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Nathaniel Hawthorne writing about Herman Melville. Journal entry date: November 12, 1856

“It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before”

Source: Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville: 1819-1891, vol. II

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Nikos Engonopoulos, from Bolívar, a Greek Poem

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“The heavenly lights, which according to those men were only lit to illuminate their battles and triumphs, still shine as brightly as ever, while the men’s passions and hopes perished with them long ago, like a tiny fire lit by some careless wanderer on the forest’s edge.”

— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

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“Oh! I love you, that is very true! I love you despite yourself, despite me, despite the whole world, despite God, despite the Devil who has his part in this. I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. Happy or unhappy gay or sad I love you. Do with me what you wish, I love you.”

— Juliette Drouet, Sunday. 4 p.m. [1833]

Drouet, Lettres à Victor Hugo. Correspondance 1833-1882, ed. Evelyn Blew Paris: Fayard, 2001), p. 20.

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“Let the dead bury their dead, for thus only can it discover its own true meaning.”

— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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February 2024

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“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

— Anaïs Nin

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Johann Peter Hebel (1811), via A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald

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Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

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Jean Paul, Hesperus oder 45 Hundsposttage, Eine Biographie (1795)

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‘Events are the froth of things, but my true interest is the sea.’

‘Sensations become images…’

‘Dawn unveiled to me the whole hostile day.’

--Paul Valéry, trans. James R. Lawler

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Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany, photos by Dejan Saulic

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Winter is coming, Daniel Arsham

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The Romantic School, by Heinrich Heine. Tr. by S. L. Fleishman

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The Romantic School, by Heinrich Heine. Tr. by S. L. Fleishman

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Herbert Trench, Introduction of The Death of the Gods

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Heinrich Heine, “The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany” (1834)