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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; 'Guilty of Dust'.”

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Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto

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Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in The Complete Notebooks of Albert Camus

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

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Hisham Matar, from My Friends

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“(I am ashamed—but it is useless—I am what I am)”

— Walt Whitman, from “[Hours Continuing Long, Sore and Heavy-hearted] (Rejected Poems), Leaves of Grass

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Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1939-1947

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter to Alejandro Gomez Arias, written in 1927, featured in The Love Letters of Frida Kahlo

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Ada Limón, from Calling Things What They Are (The Hurting Kind)

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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Martin Margiela S/S 1992