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𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵…

Mediterraneo: Apollo di Baia (Mediterranean: Apollo of Baia) by Mimmo Jodice (1993)

She lay in the darkness of her white satin bedroom, the mirrors throwing aureoles of false moonlight, the rows of perfume bottles creating false suspended gardens.

Anaïs Nin, from stella; winter of artifice: three novelettes

[…] is there anything that doesn’t remind me of you? Do you not encompass me all around?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, tr. David Constantine

Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis / Jane Austen

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947