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Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death 

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At the hamam (detail) William Arthur Breakspeare

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Anne Sexton, from “Poems 1971-73,” in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton.

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i crave gentle love, gentle hands, gentle words. i just want someone to make me feel safe and calm

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Ramadan Lament, Leila Chatti

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Saint Veronica (painting), 1652 - 1653.

by Mattia Preti.

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By Sterling Hundley

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Virginia Woolf, from Orlando: A Biography

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh (25 September, 1888)

[text ID: I have a terrible clarity of mind at times, when nature is so lovely these days, and then I’m no longer aware of myself and the painting comes to me as if in a dream.]

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Evening Star, Franz von Stuck

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Castle Ashby Orangery-Near Northhampton, UK. Photo by Haarkon

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"Have you ever had that feeling—that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"

"I’m still wandering through the streets, looking, sitting by the sea, enjoying the sunshine. I am entirely alone. I don’t know anyone, no one knows me, and for me that is a great pleasure."

hanya yanagihara, a little life / haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle / stand by me (1986), dir. rob reiner / donna tartt, the secret history / phoebe bridgers, i know the end / daniel clowes, ghost world / j.d. salinger, the catcher in the rye / nikos kazantzakis, from a letter to galatea kazantzaki / lora mathis, how to disappear in the modern age / moonlight (2016) dir. barry jenkins / richard siken, the torn-up road / sylvia plath, the bell jar

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thinking about virginia woolf’s “friendship is never untinged with amorosity”

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Peter Edward Mackenzie Brown (is a British Impressionist painter, born 1967)