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Switzerland

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But I would also want to maintain that the autobiographical content per se is not the point of the writing.  What matters is the shape-making impulse, the emergence and convergence of an excitement into a wholeness.

Seamus Heaney, interviewed in The Art of Poetry No. 75

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The hidden town of Monemvasia, Greece

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And I'm gonna keep doing this until I kill over.

Annie Leibovitz

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Figure 8 Pools, Royal National Park, Australia | by Ben Fuller

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What is it that brings on these moods of yours?  Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

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Lightning above Cathedral Rocks, Kiama, Australia

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I have often wondered why the farthest-out position always feels so right to me; why extremes, although difficult and sometimes painful to maintain, are always more comfortable than one plan running straight down a line in the unruffled middle.

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

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The more our daily life appears standardized, stereotyped, and subject to an accelerated reproduction of objects of consumption, the more art must be injected into it in order to extract from it that little difference which plays simultaneously between other levels of repetition, and even in order to make the two extremes resonate- namely, the habitual series of consumption and the instinctual series of destruction and death.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

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Ratti Gali Lake, Neelum Valley, Pakistan | By Arslan Mirza [2048x1536] ✈

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I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I’m not in the right place.

Frans Kafka, Advocates

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Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, USA… by Brian Bonham

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

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Jungle Fever by theplaidshirt