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Windy Peak Vintage

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

“Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, “The world is quiet here,” as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”

— The Slippery Slope

Real world

“When you are with me, I do not say: here and now we are together. Rather, I say: You and I and eternity, we swim in nowhere.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from When You Are With Me; Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. by Mohammad Shaheen)