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CHAPTER ONE Henri found himself looking at the sky again – a clear, black crystal dome overhead. It was difficult for the mind to conceive of hundreds of planes shattering that black crystalling silence! And suddenly, words began tumbling
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How beautiful are these first sentences?!
“how much time like this
it holds on
how much time resting
is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already
the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post”
― It Then
it holds on
how much time resting
is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already
the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post”
― It Then
“O what a threadbare life we lead,
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
“Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.”
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“i sink my life into your mouth,
i hear the murmurs of space,
and infinity seems
to have emptied itself over me”
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i hear the murmurs of space,
and infinity seems
to have emptied itself over me”
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“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Muleum
― Muleum
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