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“My dove, my darling, what I’m saying, my angel, is…I love you.”

— Alexander Pushkin, from The Bronze Horseman: Poems; “Confession,”

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“I don’t want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

— Zelda to Scott, 1919 

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“I didn’t read much — watched the sun go down — just a plain yellow sunset and one star came out — I wanted you when the yellow light came in and it was all so quiet — the day had been very windy — just to be quiet by you — while the sky turned from yellow to cold white moonlight —”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

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Students of the Turkmen State University in Ashgabat, Turkmenia. Photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950s).

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An Armenian mother and her daughter come across a fallen child on their way to Aleppo, Syria in 1915. This was during the Armenian Genocide, which claimed up to 1.5 million Armenians their lives.

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— Funny Story by Emily Henry

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— Funny Story by Emily Henry

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— Funny Story by Emily Henry

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Decision to Leave (2022) dir. Park Chan Wook

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Anne Carson, Nox

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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly's Burden; "The Subsistence of Birds,"

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Mumia Abu-Jamal addressing the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment.

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Shoda Koho (Japanese 1870-1946), Sea in the Moonlight, 1910-20, Color woodblock print

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