Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the…

Djuna Barnes
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Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.61, New Directions Publishing
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