"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)
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"I am a collection of dismantled almosts."
--Anne Sexton
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She was extraordinarily lovely, with something of both satin and velvet in her. Her eyes were dark and moist, her mouth glowed, her skin reflected the light.
--Anais Nin
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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
--Federico Garcia Lorca
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"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."
--Jeremy Collier
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She has a charming nature; rather whimsical, and even sensual.
--Virginia Woolf
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She's a very mysterious creature, with an open smile and a closed soul.
--Colette
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The best way to know life is to love many things.
--Vincent van Gogh
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Rest, nature, books, music... such is my idea of happiness.
--Leo Tolstoy
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"You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, the silver of moon-touched magnolias.
--Amy Lowell
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"She was in a dreamy, amorous, acquiescent mood."
--Virginia Woolf
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When you left I walked
into the ocean. Not to
drown, but to be held
by something
reluctant
to let go.
--Leila Chatti, Postcard from Gone.
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"The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you--"
--Virginia Woolf
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"Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking and drift and dream?"
--Virginia Woolf, The Years.
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"So much of her time spent like this; dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them."
--Colum McCann
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"My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt."
--Gustave Flaubert
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