Alice Mendes
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“There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“A paciente não sentia prazer com suas conquistas, mas gozava — com grande sofrimento — de ser aquilo que achava que a mãe queria que ela fosse: uma mulher frustrada. Entre o prazer e o gozo, há essa dose de sofrimento que o paciente não reconhece como sendo autoimposto. (...) Qual a sua parte naquilo de que você se queixa? Qual o gozo que sustenta o seu sintoma? O que insiste em querer gozar/sofrer ali mesmo onde você se queixa?”
― Análise
― Análise
“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Blankets
― Blankets
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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