“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction,“ William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone’s hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted—wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don’t look at me. If you don’t, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me,“ Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
by Anatoly Toor
“And that was all the part of it – the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it – in order to behave well, you have to behave badly,“ Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
“And when we meet again and introduced as friends, please don’t let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world.”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” D.H. Lawrence, Self Pity.
But my other side is marked with “SAINT.” Darkness & light coexist in all of us.
“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.” – Charles Bukowski
Beautiful. Romantic. Comforting.
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are right now. We will never be here again.”
— Homer, The Iliad.
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“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul,” – W.B. Yeats.