"The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you." — Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West
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"Do you know what it is to burn and burn, and to know while burning, that you are freeing yourself from everything around you?" — Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal
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"I am arranging my thoughts. I am getting rid of all the old spirits and shadows. To understand the world one must be far, far away from the world." — Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal
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