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Oh, my beloved father! Indeed you made me miserable beyond all words, but how truly did I even then forgive you, and how entirely did you possess my whole heart while I endeavoured, as a rainbow gleams upon a cataract, to soften thy ...more
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Urs Allemann
“Inflate the sentence. Try to make it burst.”
Urs Allemann, Babyfucker

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Bret Easton Ellis
“The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.”
Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

Georges Bataille
“That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know.”
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Edgar Allan Poe
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
Edgar Allan Poe

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