"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."
"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
Source: Fridtjof Nansen (1897). “The First Crossing of Greenland”, Longmans, Green
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Frida Kahlo
Painter
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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