— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

(1) Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 (2) Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life (3) Daniela Fischerová, Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else (4) Wisława Szymborska, tr. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak, from “The Railroad Station”, Map: Collected and Last Poems (5) Daul Kim (6) Sarah Kay, from “The Paradox”, No Matter the Wreckage

[Text ID: “because sometimes it is easier to / write yourself out of the play / than to face another breakfast.”]

Text ID: I'm not thinking about the day when I'll see you again, […] I don’t need to see you — I'm not separated from you, I'm still in the same world as you. […] I love you. You haven’t left me

simone de beauvoir // hera lindsay bird // jayn // eula biss // unknown // desireé dallagiacomo // mary ruefle

Heart imagery by Andrea Zanatelli Eye with Tear (oil paint and resin tear on canvas) by Nancy Fouts Douleur d'amour (detail) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille.

Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse.

Dr. Nicole Addison

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Another Middle-Class Black Kid Tries to Name It" [transcript in ALT]

- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

— John Mayer