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Two boys practicing their swordplay, Harlem, 1939–1940.

Photo: Aaron Siskind via Smithsonian American Art Museum

I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch one. But my honest self revolted at this, hated me for doing this.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Vincent van Gogh - Daubigny's Garden (1890)

Armenian women painting ceramics at the workshop of David Ohanessian, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1920s.

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“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”

— José Saramago, tr. by Tim Crosfield, from his nobel speech c. 1998

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Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons // Roald Dahl // Hot Night, Eileen Myles // From June to December, Wendy Cope // Charlotte Eriksson

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“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.”

Orhan Pamuk “The Black Book”