Emerging from / an Abyss and / entering it again / that is Life, is / it not?
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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)
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Mary Magdalene as a hermit, detail (1865)
Francesco Hayez
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“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, in Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century by John Gerassi
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