Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As … - Djuna Barnes

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It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.

Djuna Barnes

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.

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