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Marilyn photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1949.

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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Photo by Ralph Crane, 1950s

LOVE this photograph! Such a great moment.

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The woman with her back to us is a pin-up model called Vikki Dougan, also known as “The Back” because of her beautiful back and signature extremely-low backed dresses and sometimes exposed butt cleavage.

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I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive.

Sylvia Plath

writing “sorry” at the bottom of your math test

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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Françoise Dorléac in La Peau Douce - 1964

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Kerstin Kirschrot In den Wolken, 2011

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How could I tell them that my knowing was the knowing that the substance of my bones and their bones and the bones of dead men in the earth of rain at night is the common individual substance that is everlasting tranquil and blissful.

from The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac