Douaa Har

“How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself.

("Thirty-Three Abominations")”
― Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, Silver Age of Russian Culture

“to throw me away like a thing,
when there is
no thing I ever prized
in this empty world of things.”
― Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide