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taʔaf Avedisian
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“I see it all. I feel it all. I am inspired. My eyes fill with tears. Yet even as I feel this. I lash my frenzy higher and higher. It foams. It becomes artificial, insincere. Words and words and words, how they gallop - how they lash their long manes and tails, but for some fault in me I cannot fly with them, scattering women and string bags. There is some flaw in me - some fatal hesitancy, which, if I pass it over, turns to foam and falsity”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.”
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“If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.”
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“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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