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“She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.”
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“Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all...”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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“None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
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