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Muero entre murmullos.
I kiss you with all my soul.

August 8, 1950 Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.” - Marguerite Yourcenar in Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…

― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

Carlos Schwabe (Swiss,1866-1926)

“Spleen and Ideal”. Illustration for Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal”, 1900

Oil on canvas

I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.

Charles Baudelaire, 'The Flowers of Evil'.

Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; “Hymn to Beauty”