Entombment of Christ, 1672
Saint-Martin Church, Arc-en-Barrois, Haute-Marne, France
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The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted.
―Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
