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Like Poison (2023), Roberto Ferri

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Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

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- Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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Vertigo Peaks by Dion Anja 2. Return II by Dean Gioia

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

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Beauty and Rose Petals,Louis Marie de Schryver

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"I’ve never given grief the respect it deserves. Drawing no distinction between strong, weak, rich or poor, it ploughs through everyone’s lives the same, leaving identical mounds of emotional debris behind."

- You'd look better as a ghost

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Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927, volume 3. Source

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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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From Omnia Andreae Alciati V.C. Emblemata, 1577

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"He felt a bitter envy of his unknown ancestors, who had flown with such freedom over all the earth, and who had let its beauty die."

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The Times, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1897