Jess

“No one achieves frivolity straight off. It is a privilege and an art; it is the pursuit of the superficial by those who, having discerned the impossibility of any certitude, have conceived a disgust for such things; it is the escape far from one abyss or another which, being by nature bottomless, can lead nowhere.”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“A point in suffering when pain over-rules everything; I am pain, until it becomes an inanimate object, I look down, wondering when it belonged. Yet each time in its midst it’s the worst that’s ever happened, nothing goes beyond this, therefore you become optimistic, life is worth living again, perhaps despair’s only saving grace, until the next time, and you fall even lower—the abyss eternal!”
― Ann Quin, Berg

“I feel we should immerse ourselves in the most destructive element, ourselves, and swim.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition