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when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

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I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

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Michelangelo Buonarroti “The Creation of Adam” (details) (1511)  

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Marina Tsvetaeva,from "As people listen intently", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Maxwell Shorter)

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Rune lazuli

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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from The Most Foreign Country; “Sky”

[Text ID: “I don’t know whether to think about the sky or you”]

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Donna Tartt

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”

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José Olivarez

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Haruki Murakami

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Nude with Flowering Branch (detail, 1863) Gustave Courbet