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Albertine Books French Embassy New York City

“Gretchen Wieners had cracked.”

MEAN GIRLS (2004) dir. Mark Waters

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

When life just doesn't make sense.

“I am fully aware and in full possession of myself. […] I have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or even known;”

— Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 6th, 1926

“I sit at home, not sad, not happy, not myself, or anyone else.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from I Sit at Home; Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. by Mohammad Shaheen)

Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God; “The Glass Essay”

Text ID: The bare blue trees and bleached wooden sky of April / carve into me with knives of light.