i never aimed to give you a talisman!! i had something to say to you!!!!!!!!
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Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.
— Maggie Nelson, from Bluets
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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
- Maggie Nelson, Bluets
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When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Salome (detail), 1906, Franz von Stuck//Maggie Nelson//Radial Symmetry; “Study for love’s body” , Katherine Larson//Blue hour, Mothica//?//Blue Light, Mazzy Star//Bluets, Maggie Nelson//The death of Ophelia, Marco Ortolan//Blue lips, Regina Spektor//Maggie Nelson//Kate Bush//Holly Warburton//Love love love, Of Monsters and Men//Saitou Kazu//Tim Storrier (b.1949) - Bowl of Stars. 1994. Lithograph//Sylvia Earle//Haunted Depths, Nicole Gustafsson
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