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“Her face is white, covered in lime, algae skeletons, beer froth, and sea foam. I stroke her head, smooth and bare and shining: a glistening doorknob without a door.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

“This thought keeps consoling me:
though tyrants may command that lamps be smashed
in rooms where lovers are destined to meet,
they cannot snuff out the moon, so today,
nor tomorrow, no tyranny will succeed,
no poison of torture makes me bitter,
if just one evening in prison
can be so strangely sweet,
if just one moment anywhere on this earth.”
― Faiz Ahmed Faiz

“She is back in the garden of her childhood, back to the native original Hedja, child of nature and succulence and sweets, of pillows and erotic literature.”
― Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell