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“Elle aimait la vie, il aimait la mort,
Il aimait la mort, et ses sombres promesses,
Avenir incertain d'un garçon en détresse,
Il voulait mourir, laisser partir sa peine,
Oublier tous ces jours à la même rengaine...

Elle aimait la vie, heureuse d'exister,
Voulait aider les gens et puis grandir en paix,
C'était un don du ciel, toujours souriante,
Fleurs et nature, qu'il pleuve ou qu'il vente.

Mais un beau jour, la chute commença,
Ils tombèrent amoureux, mauvais choix,
Elle aimait la vie et il aimait la mort,
Qui d'entre les deux allait être plus fort?

Ils s'aimaient tellement, ils auraient tout sacrifié,
Amis et famille, capables de tout renier,
Tout donner pour s'aimer, tel était leur or,
Mais elle aimait la vie et il aimait la mort...
Si différents et pourtant plus proches que tout,
Se comprenant pour protéger un amour fou,
L'un ne rêvait que de mourir et de s'envoler,
L'autre d'une vie avec lui, loin des atrocités...

Fin de l'histoire : obligés de se séparer,
Ils s'étaient promis leur éternelle fidélité.
Aujourd'hui, le garçon torturé vit pour elle,
Puisque la fille, pour lui, a rendu ses ailes...

Il aimait la mort, elle aimait la vie,
Il vivait pour elle, elle est morte pour lui »”
― Wiliam Shakespeare

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When she shall die, take her, and cut her in little stars, and she will make the face of heaven so fine, that the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun”
― Shakespeare

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I think he was especially happy because I used to kiss this boy in the neighborhood a lot when I was
very little, and even though the psychiatrist said it was very natural for little boys and girls to explore
things like that, I think my father was afraid anyway. I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.”
― Stephen Chbosky

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
― Milan Kundera

“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable
that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself,
that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as
well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor
memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The stones lay lumpish and cold under my bare feet. I thought longingly of the black shoes on the beach. A wave drew back, like a hand, then advanced and touched my foot.
The drench seemed to come off the sea floor itself,where blind white fish ferried themselves by their own light through the great polar cold. I saw sharks' teeth and whales' earbones littered about down like gravestone.
I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.
A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache.
My flesh winched, in cowardice, from such a death.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
― Sylvia Plath

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory. I watch the news and my mouth becomes a sink full of blood. The lines, the forms, the people at the desks, the calling cards, the immigration officers, the looks on the street, the cold settling deep into my bones, the English classes at night, the distance I am from home. But Alhamdulilah all of this is better than the scent of a woman completely on fire, or a truckload of men, who look like my father pulling out my teeth and nails, or fourteen men between my legs, or a gun, or a promise, or a lie, or his name, or his manhood in my mouth.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Avec l'amour maternel, la vie vous fait, à l'aube, une promesse qu'elle ne tient jamais. Chaque fois qu'une femme vous prend dans ses bras et vous serre sur son coeur, ce ne sont plus que des condoléances. On revient toujours gueuler sur la tombe de sa mère comme un chien abandonné. Jamais plus, jamais plus, jamais plus. Des bras adorables se referment autour de votre cou et des lèvres très douces vous parlent d'amour, mais vous êtes au courant. Vous êtes passé à la source très tôt et vous avez tout bu. Lorsque la soif vous reprend, vous avez beau vous jeter de tous côtés, il n'y a plus de puits, il n'y a que des mirages. Vous avez fait, dès la première lueur de l'aube, une étude très serrée de l'amour et vous avez sur vous de la documentation. Je ne dis pas qu'il faille empêcher les mères d'aimer leurs petits. Je dis simplement qu'il vaut mieux que les mères aient encore quelqu'un d'autre à aimer. Si ma mère avait eu un amant, je n'aurais pas passé ma vie à mourir de soif auprès de chaque fontaine. Malheureusement pour moi, je me connais en vrais diamants.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn

“It seems to me more than ever that I am a victim of introspection. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. I am possessive about time alone...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre.”
― Josephin Peladan

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“We mostly understand ourselves through an endless series of stories told to ourselves by ourselves and others. The so-called facts of our individual worlds are highly coloured and arbitrary, facts that fit whatever reality we have chosen to believe in. . . . It may be that to understand ourselves as fictions, is to understand ourselves as fully as we can.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

“Le plus grand effort de ma vie a toujours été de parvenir à désespérer complètement. Il n'y a rien à faire. Il y a toujours en moi quelque chose qui continue à sourire.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn

“Il reste enfin l’explication la plus simple et la plus vraisemblable, c’est que ma mère aimait la France sans raison aucune, comme chaque fois que l’on aime vraiment.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn

“La psychanalyse prend aujourd'hui, comme toutes nos idées, une forme aberrante totalitaire ; elle cherche à nous enfermer dans le carcan de ses propres perversions. Elle a occupé le terrain laissé libre par les superstitions, se voile habilement dans un jargon de sémantique qui fabrique ses propres éléments d'analyse et attire la clientèle par des moyens d'intimidation et de chantage psychiques, un peu comme ces racketters américains qui vous imposent leur protection.

Je laisse donc volontiers aux charlatans et aux détraqués qui nous commandent dans tant de domaines le soin d'expliquer mon sentiment pour ma mère par quelque enflure pathologique : étant donné ce que la liberté, la fraternité et les plus nobles aspirations de l'homme sont devenues entre leurs mains, je ne vois pas pourquoi la simplicité de l'amour filial ne se déformerait pas dans leurs cervelles malades à l'image du reste.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn

“Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”
― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

“Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition