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“Healthy things kill you much more slowly. They begin by convincing you of their love and making you bow to their withering intensity.”
― Permagel
― Permagel
“Je n’habite plus nulle part. Habiter signifie se fondre charnellement dans la topographie d’un lieu, l’anfractuosité de l’environnement. Ici, rien de tout ça. Je ne fais que passer.”
― Petit pays
― Petit pays
“I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probing every crack, searching for a wellspring of light or cold... I don't mean my personality. Personality is a dress made of scraps that I never stop washing or mending; it clothes me, might even suit me, but it will never, ever define me. The nakedness I conceal is what makes me a person.”
― Boulder
― Boulder
“Tu dors ? non. Si j’approchais ma joue de la tienne, je sentirais tes cils frémir comme l’aile d’une mouche captive... Tu ne dors pas. Tu épies ma fièvre. Tu m’abrites contre les mauvais songes ; tu penses à moi comme je pense à toi, et nous feignons, par une étrange pudeur sentimentale, un paisible sommeil. Tout mon corps s’abandonne, détendu, et ma nuque pèse sur ta douce épaule…”
― Les Vrilles De La Vigne
― Les Vrilles De La Vigne
“But, perversely, the flittering of the butterflies had always remained more important.”
― All Passion Spent
― All Passion Spent
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