A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it.
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Colette Quote
“… that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day.”
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