Building Nothing, Laying Bricks.

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying, because I was born to be the other woman. Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me. var sc_project=7964168; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="47533e29";

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Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America; "Paradise Lost"

[Text ID: “Across centuries / and the void of a world, / sleepless, I seek you.”]

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as the wind blows; antelope valley, california

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found a bookstore in the middle of rome.

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Visited this bookstore when i was in Rome this summer and the owner is the sweetest man ever, highly recommend!

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2

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Church, from the series “Leadville, Colorado”, photo by Niklas Porter.

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

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[thebookquotes]

“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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2021, not a good time to have a spit kink.

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I was doing fine without you

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The Caledonian-Record, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, December 21, 1932

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