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Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1993)

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“[…] But it’s good when your conscience receives big wounds, because that makes it more sensitive to every twinge. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.”

—Franz Kafka, a letter to Oskar Pollak from 27th January 1904 (tr. Richard & Clara Winston)

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Aretha Franklin photographed by Richard Avedon on October 14, 1968.

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Camouflage, Linda photographed by Moto Schnabel for High Fashion Magazine February 2001

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Sonja Braas

Tornado, 2005 - “The Quiet of Dissolution”series

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𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

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- Sylvia Plath, from the 'Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath'

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Jacquline Rizvi

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Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1969. Photographed by Gjon Mili.

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Cy Twombly

 Peonies, 1980

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Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

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[text ID: December 20. Suffered much in my thoughts. end ID]

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𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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Samuel Buri (Swiss, b. 1935), Gartentor, 2014. Oil on canvas, 133,5 x 93 cm

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Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme Spring/Summer 2001, by Martina Hoogland