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Where does the greek tag originated from? I'm quite curious over the αϊνελενη.

An epithet for Helen of Troy—the Direful.

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“The divine departure. I fall. I fall into darkness after the collision with pain, and after pain the divine departure.”

— Anaïs Nin, from House of Incest

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Robert Bly, "Depression," from A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction

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Marbre de jeune fille, Musée de Rennes, France

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Camus: If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: “I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.” And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.

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“This unique winter, glistening with cold and sunlight. Blue cold.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; circa March 1936

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“I must start to build again after this long period of anguish and despair. […] Keep silent—and have confidence in myself.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; circa March 1936

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An anti-sun, black and faceless, shining madly around the nothingness of the moon, staring down at the earth with glowing, gossamer white hair. A death's head.

Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan, from 'The Strain'

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Osip Mandelstam, from Voronezh Notebooks

Text ID: Where can I hide in this January?

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Clive Bell written c. April 1908 featured in The Letters of Virginia Woolf

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I am safe; it’s only change.

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Fernando Molina, from Existentialism As Philosophy

Text ID: I define existentialism as a type of philosophizing which endeavors to analyze the basic structures of human existence and to call individuals to an awareness of their existence in its essential form.

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

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Ada Limón, from "The Unspoken"

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Louise Bourgeois (1999)

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"Fibonacci's Dance" by Karborn