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James Baldwin
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Sappho
“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sophocles
“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
Sophocles, Antigone

Jeff Vandermeer
“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

Emily Brontë
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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