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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

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“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Sophia Loren, c.1954

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My little “brick book” library collection is coming along.

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Sophia Loren, 1964

56 years later and she’s still with us. We love you, Sophia!

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“Poets can look at a painting and understand it without having it spelled out [and] painters can read poetry… . People say, I don’t understand what it means, about John Ashbery’s poetry. Painters would never say that… . The idea of ‘I don’t understand what it means,’ looking at abstract painting and saying, ‘Explain it to me, what does it mean?’ You don’t say that, and you don’t ask people to explain music. And so, poets, painters, composers don’t need explanation. Explanations are for other people … burdened by logic.”

— Elaine de Kooning in Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel

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Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019)

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“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. Nothing else affects me. Small doses, moderate loves, all the demi-teintes – all these leave me cold. I like extravagance, heat… sexuality which bursts the thermometer! I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained. I feel like a jungle animal who is escaping captivity.”

— Anais Nin, from A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgerated Diary of Anais Nin, 1932-1934

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—reasons to keep a diary/written record of existence.

credits: 1. anais nin; 2. sophocles; 3. fanny howe; 4. @pigmenting ; 5. louise erdrich; 6. tristine rainer; 7. clarice lispector; 8. sei shonagon; 9. elaine feinstein; 10. susan goldsmith wooldridge.

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𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸 𝙰 𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝙻𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 & 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛: 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟸–𝟷𝟿𝟻𝟹

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“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”

—

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1927-1931

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I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd

I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud

I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

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“Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”

— Wes Angelozzi