“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.”— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1942-1951)
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“You don’t know what a wild, crazy longing I have, what an ache there is inside me.”
Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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Forugh Farrokhzad, from ‘On Loving’, Sin: Selected Poems
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Kaveh Akbar, from Calling A Wolf A Wolf: Poems; “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”
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“But love unexplained is clearer.”— Description of Love, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
“everything I want to say / I swallow”— Lyric Hunter, from “A Garden,” Swallower
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“I looked for love in things that were not love.”— Florence Welch, referring to what inspired her to write the song “Hunger,”
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