June 2012
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Discipline will ease my hunger, discipline will quench my thirst;
Discipline...
– Porno, Irvine Welsh
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Rebecca was slave to a crushing melancholia that plundered at will her frail...
– And The Ass Saw The Angel, Nick Cave
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I feel my own blood thundering inside of me, I feel the horror of falling into...
– Je Suis Le Plus Malade Des Surrealistes: Antonin Artaud, Anaïs Nin
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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die,...
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
May 2012
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Ya’aburnee
Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
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A man who doesn’t love easily, loves too much.
– Agent Cooper, Twin Peaks
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And the angels won’t help you because they’ve all gone away.
– Laura Palmer, Fire Walk With Me (1992)
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Annie Blackburn: I lived in my head, mostly.
Agent Cooper: That’s not...
– Twin Peaks (1990 - 1991)
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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in...
– Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I...
– The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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She was a thin, a thin burning flame, colorless yet fresh. Her smile came first...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was me, waiting for me
Hoping for something more
Me, seeing me this time,...
– New Dawn Fades, Joy Division
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Don’t touch me. I’ll die if you touch me.
– Lolita (1997)
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Come live with me. And die with me, and everything with me.
– Lolita (1997)
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I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise, a paradise whose skies were the...
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is horrible without you because there is not another living soul with whom...
– Zelda Fitzgerald, To F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Lady, I will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
Until you...
– Lady I Will Touch You With My Mind, E.E. Cummings
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She had the endless eyes of someone at war.
– Will Christopher Baer
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one...
– Menstruation At Forty, Anne Sexton
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But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent...
– Gustave Flaubert
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As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward...
– Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
– This Side Of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Today I went to sleep on your bed. It was like dozing in a lullaby swung on the...
– Zelda Fitzgerald, Love letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Now I am your mute wife,
You wrote your name on my back with your knife,
My...
– My True Body, The Angels Of Light
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“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear.” - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
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I see them all lined up
Like naked children at the wall
Their skin is hanging...
– All Lined Up, Swans
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
– Delta Of Venus, Anaïs Nin
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The colour of my dreams, if I had dreams, they would be you
– Ruby, Tweaker
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I’d like to be in hell in time for dinner.
– Edward H. Rulloff, The last words of the convicted serial killer
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Some fall in love.
I shatter.
– Stephin Merritt
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I wanted her melted up inside me
All the tears and the smiles shed for me...
– Happy Child, Tweaker
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You have to have real love in your heart to do this for people.
– Susan Atkins, Explaining her part in the infamous Manson Family murders
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“We’re absolutely lethal for each other”
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
– Franz Kafka
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Out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I...
– My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man, Georges Bataille
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What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.
– Symbols And Signs,Vladimir Nabokov
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Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is...
– The Impossible, Georges Bataille
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Month by month things are losing their hardness; even my body now lets the light...
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf
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if i could i’d kiss your lips so hard your entire face would bruise put your name and blood on everyone and make the evening news i’d chain our hips together so that you could never leave i’d make you love me so much that you’d ask permission to breathe
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening.
– The Book Of Lies, Aleister Crowley