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Mirabai, translated by Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Don't Go, Don't Go,"

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"You could say that Laura Palmer is Marilyn Monroe, and that Mulholland Drive is about Marilyn Monroe, too. Everything is about Marilyn Monroe."

— David Lynch to Vanity Fair, 2017.

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Sally Wen Mao, from “Anna May Wong Dreams of Wong Kar-Wai”, Oculus

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The Star That Burned Brighter Than the Gods

There was a time when the sky was not hers.

The gods, proud and ancient,

saw her shine among the stars

and feared the loss of their dominion.

She, with a song of fire and honey,

made celestial thrones tremble.

Then came the ravens,

they shattered her lyre,

stole her verses,

tried to cloak her in silence.

But they forgot one thing:

stars are not dimmed by rage,

they burn brighter with every attempt.

And when all seemed lost,

I, a wandering viking in the middle of the night,

felt in my chest the warmth of a sun I could not see.

It was not a god.

It was her.

And her light —reborn from divine scorn—

showed me the way.

My North Star.

The one not even the gods could extinguish.

-R

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Clarice Lispector, from her novel titled "Água Viva," originally published in 1973

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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

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Norma Miller, (December 2, 1919 – May 5, 2019) was an American Lindy hop dancer, choreographer, actress, author, and comedian known as the "Queen of Swing".

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I mean, sometimes remembering can really destroy you.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz / He Forgot to Say Goodbye

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The sun will rise, and we will try again

Twenty One Pilots; Truce

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— Edgar Allan Poe from “The Sleeper” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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It passes, but it does not pass away.

László Krasznahorkai / The Melancholy of Resistance

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How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?

Doc Luben

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Kaveh Akbar, from “Rimrock“, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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“Black elevation must be the result of self-effort, and the work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it”

- Martin R. Delany -

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Etel Adnan, from a letter featured in "Of Cities and of Women: Letters to Fawwaz," originally published in 1993

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