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”Feet, why do I want them if I have wings to fly?”

Frida Kahlo, drawings about her leg amputation c. 1953, from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

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Alejandra Pizarnik, en Texto de sombra y La mesa verde, de Textos de sombra y últimos poemas

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Magnified flies. Personal hygiene. Revised. 1923.

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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Emily Dickinson

“We dream—it is good we are dreaming— It would hurt us—were we awake— But since it is playing—kill us, And we are playing—shriek—”

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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Reading for male and female corpses, 1998

The dinner with cancer and I, 1993

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July 10, 1930 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]

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Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”

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Cat Power by Mark Borthwick for Vanessa Bruno FW03-04

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I'm my mother's child call me a woman made horror

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i am in my 20s but also in my teenage years and also in my 40s

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Anais Nin

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Detail from ‘Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci,’ (1480-1490), Piero di Cosimo

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What a secret language we talk, undertones, overtones, nuances, abstractions, symbols.

Anaïs Nin, from The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

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Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen [originally published 1802]