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— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. Michael Henry Heim)

–Gabriela Mistral.

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Caroline Aupick featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

Yves Bonnefoy, tr. by Anthony Rudolf, from The Selected Poems; “The Ravine,”

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

Miniature of the Israelite prophet Isaiah being sawn in two under the orders of Manasseh, king of the Kingdom of Judah. *Heures de Louis de Laval. Jean Bourdichon illuminator ~ 15th century • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

L. V., writings from the waiting room

warsan shire

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Pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) sometimes rotate themselves in a counterclockwise fashion in order to hypnotize predators or prey. So confused by the perfect upright circles, animals are quickly distracted and are unable to focus on anything else.