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Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (1835) by Ary Scheffer
“You made the world rosy, then you left.” —Geneviève in Entre la mer et l’eau douce (1967)
Juliette Binoche in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy (2010)
With her milk I sucked in the love of the Russian people, of my province, of my homeland. … Through my nurse Russian became the first language that I commanded, though in my parents’ house Polish, German, and French were primarily spoken. And it was she who told me the wondrously beautiful Russian fairy tales, or sang, while rocking me, those Little Russian folk songs that stamped themselves upon my existence, my emotional world, and also all my later works.
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)
“Sacher-Masoch’s identity as a Slavic Ruthenian came not only from supposed descent, but also from an intense connection to the Galician village girl who became his wet nurse in his infancy.”
—Larry Wolff, Introduction to Venus in Furs
The Death of a Lumberjack
יעל נעים Yael Naïm
Forrest and Jenny were like peas and carrots. These two? Well. They were like mustard and ketchup.
Émeline Becuwe in Sous mon lit (2004)
Émeline Becuwe in Sous mon lit (2004)
Émeline Becuwe in Sous mon lit (2004)
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