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The violet is introverted and its introspection is of the deepest sort. They says it hides because it’s modest. That’s not it. It hides to be able to find its own secret.

Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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Sarah Wyman Whitman, detail of Roses—Souvenir de Villier le bel (ca. 1879)

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Home of Marguerite Duras © Lise Sarfati

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Nick Drake - Hazey Jane I

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…to arrive at that beautiful ancient innocence which consists of the ability to plunge into dream…

Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Essay on Music,” wr. c. 1932

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Lowell Birge Harrison (1854 - 1929) 

Moonlight Nocturne, Santa Barbara

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Baldomer Gili i Roig painting Abisme (ca. 1904)

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I am the burning fire, the turning disk, the wild water, and I cannot find words for an answer.

Virginia Adair, Living on Fire: A Collection of Poems; “Burning Ash,”

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Loïs Mailou Jones in her Paris studio (ca. 1938)

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François Coppée, “Résurrection”

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The back panel of Vaches au paturage au bord de la Touques by Eugène Boudin (ca. 1881-1888)

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Bukka White, “Aberdeen Mississippi Blues” (1963)

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Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)  -   L'Étoile de Verre     (charcoal, chalk, glass ground in the manner of a diamond on sandpaper, mounted on card, 1965)

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Anna Pavlova and Enrico Cecchetti at Ivy House, 1927.  

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The wild animal removed from its forest home sleeps, dreams of the equator of its birth, trembles in its sleep, its dream of sunlight, weeps.

Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) Interior of William Merritt Chase's Tenth Street Studio