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“They will not exhaust it, for its matter is inexhaustible.”
{She sailed beneath a sky of lilacs, each cluster of which was heavier and more charged with anguish than the word “blood” at the top of a page.}
{Where do the angels’ progeny now meet?….I turn to my youth; I fall asleep in it. I try to revive it by kissed lepers, canonized guts, flowers condemned mirthlessly by notorious councils, in short an entire legend which is called Golden, the even more overwhelming miracles with which [we] teemed…}
{It is not to be wondered at that the most wretched of human lives is related in words that are too beautiful.}
—Jean Genet, The Miracle of the Rose