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Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Harold Nicolson dated 31 January 1956

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your face has been carefully constructed, perfectly arranged. the curve of your hips and slope of your lips, the pull of your eyelids, the slightest dip in your back, they’ve been drawn through generations like a single red string to end up with you. in a way you carry the faces of your ancestors, and that alone—the fact that you are you, the fact that you’re what millions of years have brought forward—makes you worthy of life. you don’t have to be or do anything more, you don’t have to earn your breaths or heartbeats. you’re already meant to be.

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the images out of Gaza today are the most horrific I've seen yet. Pools of blood in the street, shredded children, old women with their limbs blown off. This is complete and utter madness the occupation is not even hiding it anymore they are just killing and maiming everyone indiscriminately since everyone has moved on from them bombing a hospital and killing hundreds. I am at my wit's end I really am.

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& then suddenly, the rain begins to pour.

it always all ways asks for forgiveness.

a ghost kneels in me,              asks to be spared.

— Alison C. Rollins, from “original [sin],“ published in Poetry

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Anaïs Nin, from “the four-chambered heart,” originally published c. 1950

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sandy liang resort 2o24 .

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franz kafka

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Jennie at the Chanel Métiers d’Art show in Tokyo 

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“Poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for.”

— Dead Poets Society (1989)

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Thinking about the countless times art and music and cinema and literature have saved and comforted me during difficult times i really owe my happiness to everyone dedicated to their craft

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my italian mother on the day of her wedding

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— Mary Oliver, North Country

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Jennie for Hera

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weiran for parsons mfa rtw spring 2o23, paper dolls .

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Quiet tune is my dearest friend.

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