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“I think I'm beginning to see my life. I think I can already say, I have a vague desire to die. From now on I treat that word and my life as inseparable. I think I have a vague desire to be alone, just as I realize I've never been alone any more since I left childhood behind, and the family of the hunter. I'm going to write.”

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray (1984).

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Jean Alfred Marioton, French (1864–1903)

Studies of Figures Nº 25 (1905)

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Sappho, fragment 88 (trans. by Anne Carson)

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French vintage postcard

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Nightmares Come at Night (1970)

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Mark Rappaport - The Scenic Route (1978)

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French vintage postcard, mailed in 1938

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Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. II: 1956-1963

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Billie Holiday & Pepi, 1957

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I love birds. Reasons for living. Little earth choir everyday are you kidding? Beautiful. Indebted and lucky for it.

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You should pamper yourself, have a long late breakfast, read, listen to music, lounge a little. Do feel free to tell me any problems that are bothering you. It takes my mind off myself to think of other people.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, written c. November 1952, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963