“The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.”
― The Cherubinic Wanderer
― The Cherubinic Wanderer
“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
― Memoirs of a Polar Bear
― Memoirs of a Polar Bear
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“What helps me? That we are used to living together. Communally. We are communal people. With us everything is in common - both happiness and tears. We know how to suffer and how to tell people about our suffering. Suffering justifies our hard and ungainly life. For us pain is art. I must admit, women boldly set out this path.”
― War's Unwomanly Face
― War's Unwomanly Face
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