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— Sébastien

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Works and Loves," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

I have eaten a lot of apricots, and I love you very, very, very much.  3 July 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, my sweet, my own, eternally beloved . . . How I love you . . . 3 July 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

a round-shaped interior doorway with an art nouveau design from the 1930’s

January 7, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 2]

Guinea Pig 6: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988) dir. Hideshi Hino

From December 6 to 7, 1912 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

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