August 2012
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“If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same,...”
– Emily Gould
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“When a thing disturbs the peace of your heart, give it up.”
– Prophet Muhammad
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July 2012
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from “A Summer Garden” by Louise Glück
How quiet the garden is; no breeze ruffles the Cornelian cherry. Summer has come.
How quiet it is now that life has triumphed. The rough
pillars of the sycamores support the immobile shelves of the foliage,
the lawn beneath lush, iridescent—
And in the middle of the sky, the immodest god.
Things are, he says. They are, they do not change; response does not change.
How hushed it is, the...
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“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player,...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from Notes from Underground
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“And yet, it’s hard not to feel inundated with this discourse about how you’re...”
– Chelsea Fagan, I Am Not Like Other Girls
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“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain...”
– Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre
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