Marie

“Hallucinations are without number. Truly that is what I have always known: no more faith in history, principles forgotten. I’ll keep quiet about that: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let us be as avaricious as the sea.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men