And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Arthur Golden

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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
- Arthur Golden

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. Arthur Golden

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Arthur Golden