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Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God; from 'Is It True?'

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“I knew that I lived in a place where hope and a sense of possibility were as ephemeral as morning fog, but I did not see the despair at the heart of our drug use.”

— Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped

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Sommernebel mit Auwaldresten an der Lahn by Felix Wesch

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Medusa and Perseus by Doc Zenith.

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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

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Giuseppe Badiali (1798-1859)

A Gothic Forehall at Night (detail)Watercolor on Canvas

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James Dean photographed by Roy Schatt on Christmas Day, 1954.

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“I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.” - Ian Curtis

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Les Amants De Montparnasse, 1958

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on things we can’t get back

mary oliver flare \ anne sextion a self-portrait in letters \ joseph lorusso \ leonard cohen lover lover lover \ anne sexton a self-portrait in letters \ barbara kroll \ anne sexton eighteen days without you: love poems \ celia paul

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‘Cy Twombly in Rome’ by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, 1966

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Jonathan Safran Foer, from ‘Everything Is Illuminated’

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Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946).

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“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

— From Here to Eternity, James Jones (b. 6 November 1921)

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Sylvia Plath, Ariel; from ‘Elm’