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“Your body is a hyacinth,
Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars”
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Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars”
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“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”
― Agamemnon
― Agamemnon
“Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!”
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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
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