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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

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“Because hands afraid of loss are the only hands for love.”

— Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000), from “I Foretell the Days of Yore“ in: “The Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, edited by Robert Alter

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LOVE IS A REPETITION

Pride and Prejudice (2005) // A Huguenot on St Bartholomew’s Day (Millais) // Pink In The Night (Mitski) // The Love Song (Watteau) // Natural Magic (Brickdale) // Letters to Vera (Nabokov) // The Kiss (Klimt) // This is How You Lose The Time War (El-Mohtar and Gladstone)

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Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

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Titane (2021) dir. Julia Ducournau

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{Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways/ Unknown/ Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3)/ Trista Mateer, Honeybee/ Unknown/ Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body/ Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag/ Tumblr User: @museyuumm}

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}

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Florence and the Machine, from “Mother”

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Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Felon; “Night”

[Text ID: What she / tells me: prison killed you my love, killed you so dead / that you're not here now, you're never here, you're always.]

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Alice Notley, from In The Pines

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James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room

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Meggie Royer, from “Psych Ward Lover.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters, 1902-1922

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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby