“To be made of flesh was humiliation.”
— Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
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Grażyna Smalej (Polish,b.1976)
The bay, view from the cliff. Orłowo, June 11, 2022, 9:20
Acrylic on Canvas
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![[ID: I haven’t been to church in seven years, / but with my fingers hooked in the gills / of a thrashing white trout, / I know that we unmake the fish / the same way God made him.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/fa1ba8030c6dc6e8459464355bdb9edc/2760e5a852aff6dc-5a/s500x750/3a65855215f7dcda6495f26c221c89c5742b3750.jpg)
![[ID: There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have / got to force yourself to want to.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2f1ce35b79d7a92cccde951071a15b0b/eb7de23311537731-4f/s500x750/e77c83ca8aa2f94530c9781b8453600a5d18fccf.jpg)
Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars
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“ [ID: text seen as; ‘(JULY IS OVER AND THERE’S VERY LITTLE TRACE)’
a poem by Frank O’Hara]
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[ID: text seen as; ‘(JULY IS OVER AND THERE’S VERY LITTLE TRACE)’
a poem by Frank O’Hara]
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― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
[ text ID: The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man. ]
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so fucked up that i have to take care of my body everyday. what if sometimes i feel sad about the maintenance
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