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Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
I am DRUNK! So fun
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,"
D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence
April 14, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992
I’m so happy to be alive
The universe is flirting with you.
Are you noticing?
She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.
– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)
What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.
C.G. Jung
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”
Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.
Pagans (2019), dir. Lucy Luscombe
I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.
— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)
And then—you walked in.
You, with your glittering chaos.
The oracle who keeps unfolding
Can I still be good and want you?
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
me in the spring sun
A Palestinian couple breaks their fast on the beach in Gaza City during Ramadan. Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty
Marta Orlowska
Devilman デビルマン (1986) Illustrated By: Go Nagai
Pola X [1999 Leos Carax]
Rainer Maria Rilke, from a poem titled "You Who Never Arrived," featured in Selected Poems
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries
Cleveland Trust building, stairs. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, 1929.