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I am generally quite healthy and I'm not obsessed with cleanliness. When I am working in my studio, I get pretty dirty from head to toe. Often I don't think twice about grabbing a bite to eat after an exhausting afternoon grappling with my canvases, paint and other materials. I also kiss my cats. I'm a dirty girl. But I wash every day and always when I use the bathroom. Good enough? A little dirt is good.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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