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Unusual Victorian Renaissance revival hexagonal terrarium. English, Circa 1860-70
“Torment and tears — after all, that is life, too.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Crime and Punishment (tr. David McDuff)
THE CAVITY AND THE WOUND; THE OPENING AND THE EYE; THE CYCLE AND THE ANOMALY
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
[text id : “To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]
“I didn’t yearn for anything but privacy, because it is an embarrassment to be a wound in public.”
— Billy-Ray Belcourt, from A History of My Brief Body
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Margaret Atwood
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Yves Olade, Bloodsport