Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
- Italo Calvino
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David Lynch in the Red Room, its work aims to reduce violence in communities and bring inner peace to individuals
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Harold H. Piffard (1867-1939, British) ~ Ottoman Beauty with a Butterfly (detail), 1931
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Gift of light
"Light is a gift for the people who have drowned in darkness."
-j.kovx
Digital painting
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"Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being."
~ Milan Kundra.
Photo: Kesler Tran
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You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.
— C. JoyBell
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And it’s nice, I admit. There’s a lightness to my thoughts.
Meghan Gilliss, Lungfish: A Novel (Catapult, September 13, 2022)
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(from “The Willow”)
They despised my roots that swallowed fertile earth.
Saying my being was from the body that swallowed a sordid, vicious secret.
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I'm carrying my dead on my back. Grieve for my lightness.
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