“My pain is so complete that I am dying of not dying.”— San Juan de la Cruz, from “This Life that I Live,” written c. May 1571
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when franz kafka said “i could have built the pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason”
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More from Luo Yang, chronicler of modern Chinese youth, depicting a generation of women that don’t ascribe to Western stereotypes or the expectations of their elders.
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Italian storta, early 17th century.
from Karabela Auctions
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