She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the wor… - Djuna Barnes

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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.