May 2013
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“[T]hat’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps...”
– Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable
“You there — me here.”
– Paul Auster, Moon Palace
“How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
How...”
– Warsan Shire
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”I may be sitting in a cafe listening to the music, drinking coffee. The lights are vivid, the music violent. I am keenly aware of everything, from the stain on the table to the face of the man sitting farthest from the table, aware of what the waiters are discussing. I feel my body alive and warm inside of my fur coat. I am wearing a hood with a fur edge. I feel at moments I am an actress....
“Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
“…The group which was organizing the New Masses gave Mayakovsky a party at a...”
– Joseph Freeman on Mayakovsky in the USA, in An American Testament: A Narrative of Rebels and Romantics (1936)
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“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring...”
– Franz Kafka
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Haustor- Uzalud Pitaš
“The study of dreams is particularly difficult, for we cannot examine dreams...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Nightmares from Seven Nights, translation by Eliot Weinberger
“I had to set up a barrage of self-protecting lies. I needed to protect my real...”
– Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
