“[Dionysos]. Swoony type, long hair, bedroom eyes, cheeks like wine.”
— Euripides, Bakkhai (tr. by Anne Carson)
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— Anton Chekhov; from an 1886 letter to Nikolai Chekhov, The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
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— Abbas Kiarostami, A Wolf Lying in Wait, trans. Karim Emami & Michael Beard
