“There were times when my body wasn’t calm, when actually nothing was calm,”
— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská written c. August 1920
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“She had such a thirst for destruction,”
— Marcel Proust, from The Complete Works; “In Search of Lost Time,”
“Gently, she leads you out into the darkness / and makes you drink rain.”
— Patricia Smith, from Blood Dazzler; “Prologue—And Then She Owns You,”