“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
― Ariel
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
― Ariel
“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
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“You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.”
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