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November 18, 2024

There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all – ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write?

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“a bomb makes / more shrapnel / if it explodes / on cement / so never let / your guard / down, not / for one / minute.”

Maggie Nelson | “The World”

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