"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim."

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Source: Fridtjof Nansen (1897). “The First Crossing of Greenland”, Longmans, Green

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Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her deeply personal and symbolic works that explore themes of identity, pain, and self-expression.

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"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you."

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