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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Louise Norcross, written c. March 1860, from The Letters of Emily Dickinson: 1845-1886

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“how could I be such a fool as to think I could love any one after you?”

— the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky

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landscape with clouds, duncan stuart mccandless, c. 1980

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audrey hepburn and gregory peck in roman holiday (1953)

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girl in a boat with geese, berthe morisot, c. 1889

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And sometimes I enact destruction just to reenact my faith that things can be built up again. But I’m trying to stop the first part of that and just have the faith.

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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landscape with a house, ker xavier roussel, c. 1897

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The Florence Tribune, Nebraska, October 29, 1909

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gregory peck, spellbound (1945)

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sylvia plath

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nabokov’s letters to véra

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interior with pink wallpaper i & ii, edouard vuillard, c. 1896

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untitled [flower], ed baynard, c. 1981

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the artist's garden in argenteuil, claude monet, c. 1873

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the artist's garden at vétheuil, claude monet, c. 1881

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"Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about."

— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan