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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin

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Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

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It's spring, soon blood is going to flow.

Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts; from 'In October 1991...', tr. Keith Cohen

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Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni (1979), conducted by Lorin Maazel

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Medea (1969) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

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Juan Rayos - Chinese moleskine

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“I fix nothing, I let it go.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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Caroline Walker Bynum, “Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century"

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‘Children of Shatila’ (Lebanon, 1998) film by Mai Masri. In this scene the youth of the Palestinian refugee camp interview an elder with a video camera.

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Mizuchi by Keisai Eisen (Edo Period)

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“I will tell you again: I want you. I want you. It’s a relief to be bereft of shame, of guilt, to know what you want. To want. And if you don’t want me there is still no shame”

— Maggie Nelson, from Something Bright, Then Holes (via sagmoonn)