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“Besides, like a man who knows he is dying, he felt a need to be equally tender to all.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask

“Ambiguities everywhere should be collected as evidence of ambivalence.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

“I am familiar with the impatience we feel when forced to suspend the enchantment of solitude.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Le statue d'acqua

“A work of art is a prophetic loan, drawn on fugitive premises; the artist acts on it, and, presumably, sustains some faith that others will do so too, or at least could.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Tribunal