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Vita Sackville-West
“He carried a pencil always behind his ear, a pencil so broad and of so soft a lead that it could serve for nothing except making a mark across a plank of wood, but which Lady Slane never saw used for any other purpose than scratching his head.”
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West
“That was old age, when people knew everything so well that they could no longer afford to express it save in symbols.”
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

Najwa Barakat
“My wife was of salt. Grains of salt, ready to dissolve. Salt always has a kind of coercion. There's something in its flavor that tastes like distress...”
Najwa Barakat, Mister N
tags: salt

Vita Sackville-West
“According to his lights, he gave you all you could desire. He merely killed you, that's all. Men do kill women. Most women enjoy being killed; so I am told. Being a woman, I daresay that even you took a certain pleasure in the process.”
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West
“But, perversely, the flittering of the butterflies had always remained more important.”
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

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