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reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

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George Herbert, "Affliction (IV)"

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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”

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

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In a mirror facing me I ask For the night to come Let the time pass Let me withdraw Let the mirror be empty.

— Dora Maar, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso, (2017)

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Anaïs Nin, Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

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“Sometimes when one wakes up in the morning one thinks that truth is right next to the bed, like an open grave with a few wilted flowers, ready to receive.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Clarice Lispector — An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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— ANNA KAMIEŃSKA, trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak.

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sculpture by Cornelia Konrads

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Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women,"

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at my age, my heart seems more than ever like a sunflower, always turning toward the light and warmth for more strength and force of character, for more beauty and wisdom.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written circa February 1920 from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–20

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

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Camille Rankine, from "History", Incorrect Merciful Impulses

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My biography: alienation to the bone.

— Fawziyya al-Sindi, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, transl by Joseph T. Zeidan, (2001)

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love life but it’s hard and sad