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“My shadow serves as the friend I crave.”
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“People as such do not exist: they are all 'things conceived”
― Petersburg
― Petersburg
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”
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[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”
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“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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