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The sky’s blue eyes are falling shut,

shut, too, the house’s many eyes;

fields sleep beneath their coverlet –

so go to sleep now, little Blaise.

— Jozsef Attila

“When you read this note, I will no longer be among the living. Dear sir, dear Aunt Irma, please forgive me. I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want to be a tulip any more.”

— “Tulip in Crisis” by Örkény István