"Alone, at last, alone. Alone with her mind. Alone with her heart. She was now sitting by the fire,..."

“Alone, at last, alone. Alone with her mind. Alone with her heart. She was now sitting by the fire, taking quiet puffs on scented cigarettes, slowly sipping a marvelous, thick wine from her glass.”

- Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from Selected Works; “Fate,”

(via thatkindofwoman)