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I am alone. Or, more like: alone with that other “me”.

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 I am alone. Or, more like: alone with that other “me”.

Jan 25,2023

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What is it that separates my self from my self? What is it that destroys me, negates me?

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 What is it that separates my self from my self? What is it that destroys me, negates me?

Jan 21,2023

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I am in front of the mirror. And for the first time in my life —yes, exactly—for the first time in my life, I see

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 I am in front of the mirror. And for the first time in my life —yes, exactly—for the first time in my life, I see

Nov 30,2022

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I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.

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 I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.

Oct 10,2022

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There’s no joining past to present — I saw that then. My old, whole self was gone for good.

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 There’s no joining past to present — I saw that then. My old, whole self was gone for good.

Jun 30,2022

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A sunshiny day came, full of the scent of a mezereon tree, when bees were tumbling into the yellow crocuses, and she forgot,

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 A sunshiny day came, full of the scent of a mezereon tree, when bees were tumbling into the yellow crocuses, and she forgot,

Mar 17,2022

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And since I couldn’t let [the young man I was] breathe, since I smothered him inside of me, since I covered him a little bit

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 And since I couldn’t let [the young man I was] breathe, since I smothered him inside of me, since I covered him a little bit

Mar 16,2022

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If someone were to edit my notebook and ask me to endorse certain pages, I’d say no. Nevertheless, I would endorse the

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 If someone were to edit my notebook and ask me to endorse certain pages, I’d say no. Nevertheless, I would endorse the

Mar 16,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #q #josefina vicens #the empty book #mexican lit #fragments of selfhood

home: the word gives me a shove, and I stumble.

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 home: the word gives me a shove, and I stumble.

Jan 07,2022

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One day, in a careless moment, your own heart will be revealed to itself, as though you had turned a corner and collided with

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 One day, in a careless moment, your own heart will be revealed to itself, as though you had turned a corner and collided with

Mar 12,2021

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #personal #prose #mihail sebastian #for two thousand years #romanian lit #fragments of selfhood

I hardly exist and if I do exist it’s with delicate care.

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 I hardly exist and if I do exist it’s with delicate care.

Jan 28,2021

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #personal #clarice lispector #south american lit #fragments of selfhood #agua viva #brazilian it

At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the I am doing my best to not

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 At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the I am doing my best to not

Jan 26,2021

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#quotes #poetry #lit #m #x #fragments of selfhood #echoes of the other #natalie diaz #american arithmetic #native american lit

He saw his life refracted through the prism of other people’s words. It was another way of not being noticed. Of

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 He saw his life refracted through the prism of other people’s words. It was another way of not being noticed. Of

Jan 22,2021

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#quotes #reading #lit #essays #on books and reading #m #x #personal #geoff dyer #otherwise known as the human condition #um unter den Wissenden zu sein oder allein #fragments of selfhood #!

Dear sirs, now of all times, when I had so much to say, I don’t know how to express myself. I’m a solemn and serious woman,

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 Dear sirs, now of all times, when I had so much to say, I don’t know how to express myself. I’m a solemn and serious woman,

Nov 09,2020

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #clarice lispector #excerpt #sing me down into the dark #south american lit #collected stories of clarice lispector #the book of women #fragments of selfhood #brazilian lit