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“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“My shadow serves as the friend I crave.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway