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The Plantin-Moretus Museum.

> Photo by Jassy-50.

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pretty book pages

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— Clarice Lispector, from Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964 - 1980

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Rainer Maria Rilke wrote these words on a flying sheet in the last years of his life: "Profond amour qui de la terre s'élève" ("Deepest love that rises from the earth"). Let's dream of a facsimile edition of those lovely poems in times to come.

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― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

[text ID: I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.]

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Adonis, from Selected Poems; “Celebrating Al-Ma’ari: II. Days” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her."

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These are damn difficult times for all of us but please don’t be a criminal, don’t give us ignorance. Educate yourself on everything that’s happening and advocate for human rights.

YOU ARE NOT SOLELY THE REGION WHERE YOU LIVE. YOU ARE ONE OF US. YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

source. scvforchange on instagram

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I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

— Johnny Depp

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“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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I was never really insane

Except upon occasions

When my heart was touched.

-Edgar Allen Poe