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Marilyn Monroe by Jack Cardiff, 1956.

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

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May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

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John Yau, from "Borrowed Love Poems," featured in Boston Review (edited)

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Please don’t say: I discovered there is still a large part of me that is alive. No, my darling! You are entirely alive. It’s just that you’ve lived an irrational life, a life that doesn’t resemble you.

— Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Tânia Kaufmann wr. c. January 1948 

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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

Sigmund Freud. Letter to Ludwig Binswanger. Mourning and Melancholia. Standard Edition. 1917.

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fr. “Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?” by César Vallejo trans. James Wright

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I lust to write. The coming of the orgasm is not the salvation but, more, the birth of my ego. I cannot write until I find my ego. The only kind of writer [I] could be is the kind who exposes himself... To write is to spend oneself, to gamble oneself. But up to now I have not even liked the sound of my own name. To write, I must love my name. The writer is in love with himself ... and makes his books out of that meeting and that violence.

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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Bernardo Wade, 'the coming of fox'

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everyone should watch this video. just learned something new. the usa is still genociding indigenous people and they won't stop.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm, Source Unlisted.

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“Paul Valéry also described his perception of first lines so vividly, and to my mind so accurately, that I have never forgotten it: the opening line of a poem, he said, is like finding a fruit on the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall.”

— Mary Ruefle, On Beginnings from Madness, Rack, and Honey

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Roberto Gonzalez - El Sueño Del Navegante (The Navigator's Dream, 2024 - Acrylic on linen

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Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

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1730 paragraph 21

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"Witch influence was thought to be transmitted in the food that the women prepared. . . . Kachin witchcraft is contagious rather than hereditary ... it is associated with affinity, not filiation."

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Alliance or the pact is the form of expression for an infection or epidemic constituting the form of content. In sorcery, blood is of the order of contagion and alliance.

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It can be said that becoming-animal is an affair of sorcery because (1) it implies an initial relation of alliance with a demon; (2) the demon functions as the borderline of an animal pack, into which the human being passes or in which his or her becoming takes place, by contagion; (3) this becoming itself implies a second alliance, with another human group; (4) this new borderline between the two groups guides the contagion of animal and human being within the pack.

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There is an entire politics of becomings-animal, as well as a politics of sorcery, which is elaborated in assemblages that are neither those of the family nor of religion nor of the State. Instead, they express minoritarian groups, or groups that are oppressed, prohibited, in revolt, or always on the fringe of recognized institutions, groups all the more secret for being extrinsic, in other words, anomic.

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If becoming-animal takes the form of a Temptation, and of monsters aroused in the imagination by the demon, it is because it is accompanied, at its origin as in its undertaking, by a rupture with the central institutions that have established themselves or seek to become established.

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The central thesis of this text is that philosophy is, at its deepest level, a program—a collection of action-principles and practices-or-operations which involve realizabilities, i.e., what can be possibly brought about by a specific category of properties or forms. And that to properly define philosophy and to highlight its significance, we should approach philosophy by first examining its programmatic nature. ... [W]e should ask “what sort of program is philosophy, how does it function, what are its operational effects, realizabilities specific to which forms does it elaborate, and finally, as a program, what kinds of experimentation does it involve?”

Reza Negarestani, "What Is Philosophy? Part One: Axioms and Programs"