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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to her mother featured in Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

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Mary Oliver, from "Staying Alive" in Blue Pastures

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

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Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

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Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

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“More people become good by practice than by nature.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B242

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You will be too raw for some. You will be too loud, too big, too fierce, too quiet, too deep. These are not your people.

S.C. Lourie

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Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

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Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

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Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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J. D. Salinger, “Zooey.” Franny and Zooey

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do your good deeds in silence

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La Union, 2024.

Conte d’Ete.