Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around,…

Djuna Barnes
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy ✨ Djuna Barnes (2014). Nightwood, p.67, Faber & Faber
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy ✨ Djuna Barnes (2014). Nightwood, p.67, Faber & Faber

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