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“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne

“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
― Colette, Claudine and Annie

“What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.”
― Marquis de Sade

“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”
― Gustave Courbet