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“In the midst of severe pain, I practiced my own death. I died over and over again becoming one with mystery, no boundaries remaining between this form I call my body and the cosmos.”
― Eva Tuschman Leonard, Bodywork

“Instead of one, the only, photograph, there are hundreds. No one, not even the photographer, manages to look at every snap: it would take years. But it doesn't matter, the important thing is to store all these many moments, to keep them safe for the Great Looking, the Grand Viewer who has all the time and attention in the world, more than would fit in any lifetime, and who will draw all that has happened into one line of events. There is no one else to do it.”
― Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

“Personally, I long to be a canceled rich man because that is just a vacation.”
― Ziwe,, Black Friend: Essays

“But guilt at the missing details hampered my ability to remember, forced me to put off asking more detailed questions. It was already clear that I would one day (when I became that better version of myself) open a special notebook and sit down with my mother, and she would start at the very beginning, and then there would be some meaning to it all – and a system, a family tree, and every cousin and nephew would be in their rightful place, and at the end of it there would be a book.”
― Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory