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ilaria | she/her literature philosophy poetry and books

[cafecomlaitt]

My biggest comfort in life is that Henry Winter can't do math either

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— Clarice Lispector, from “Report on the Thing.”

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, from “Europe on $5 a Day”, The Door

[shisasan]

December 1, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[shisasan]

November, 1937 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]

[weltenwellen]

Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt

[loveswitchery]

Richard Siken, Saying your Names / Vita Sackville-West, Challenge

[shisasan]

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1865-67; detail, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

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[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

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[aaresx]

Margaret Atwood

[minesweeping]

not to be that guy but girls will read lemony snicket’s love letter to end all love letters ONCE and then have strange ideas abt romance forever

[minesweeping]

this did something to my brain

[weltenwellen]

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[intimatum]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964 - 1980