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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) dir. by Krzystof Kieslowski: “You can say, I want to be free, but how do you free yourself from your own feelings, your own memories, your own desires? Perhaps we can’t function without them - which automatically means we aren’t free, we’re prisoners of our own emotions.”

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

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "The Melancholy of a Mechagirl," originally published in 2023

Trista Mateer, from a poem featured in her collection titled The Dogs I Have Kissed

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926