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Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

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Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “A woman/dirge for wasted children”

[Text ID: “I lie / knowing it is past time for sacrifice / I burn / like the hungry tongue of an ochre fire / like a benediction of fury”]

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A taste of you slipped into me like moonlight in a locked church.

— Janet Lees, Reconstructed

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There is no greater innocence than our gentle sin.

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Harry Clarke (1889-1931), 'Judith slaying Holofernes'.

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"Methinks, a million fools in choir are raving and will never tire", from Goethe's Faust by Harry Clarke (1927)

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Eugenio Montale, from a poem titled "Dora Markus," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry

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Alexander Blok, translated by Robert Chandler, from a poem titled "Dreams of You,"

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“Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.”

— Jean Paul Sartre - from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir

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sacré cœur

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A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, to let the warm love in!, from Ode to Psyche for John Keats' Poems by Robert Anning Bell (1897)

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GODDESS AND THE MORTAL Painting by Elegia

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The Knight-Woman, Vardges Sureniants

In 1909, V. Sureniants painted the canvas "The Knight-Woman," based on the historical figure of Aytsemnik, a courageous heroine from the city of Ani. The name of this fearless Armenian woman is connected to the heroic battles fought in 1126 to defend the Armenian capital of Ani. During that period, one of the seljuk emirs led a large army and laid siege to Ani, prompting the Armenian population to rise in defense of their homeland.

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As I watch the sun kiss the horizon I'm reminded that endings, too, can be gentle and beautiful.

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"I can fix her." i can worship her like a goddess as she is. i can drown in her sorrows and accept all of her pain. i can give her the devotion she deserves and make her my religion.

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Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)