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Emily Dickinson
“Poor little heart!
Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care!

Proud little heart!
Did they forsake thee?
Be debonair! Be debonair!

Frail little heart!
I would not break thee:
Could'st credit me? Could'st credit me?

Gay little heart!
Like morning glory
Thou'll wilted be; thou'll wilted be!”
Emily Dickinson

Édouard Levé
“One Saturday in the month of August, you leave your home wearing your tennis gear, accompanied by your wife. In the middle of the garden you point out to her that you’ve forgotten your racket in the house. You go back to look for it, but instead of making your way toward the cupboard in the entryway where you normally keep it, you head down into the basement. Your wife doesn’t notice this. She stays outside. The weather is fine. She’s making the most of the sun. A few moments later she hears a gunshot. She rushes into the house, cries out your name, notices that the door to the stairway leading to the basement is open, goes down, and finds you there. You’ve put a bullet in your head with the rifle you had carefully prepared. On the table, you left a comic book open to a double-page spread. In the heat of the moment, your wife leans on the table; the book falls closed before she understands that this was your final message.”
Édouard Levé, Suicide

Sylvia Plath
“I get a little frightened when I think of life slipping through my fingers like water…”
Sylvia Plath, Journals of Sylvia Plath

Alessandro Baricco
“Ona yardımcı olmak için söyleyebileceğim şeyi, ancak o günü, atlayışını, çılgınlığını daha sonra düşündükten sonra, yani çok geç anladım. Birçok insanın aynı şekilde, kendilerini gerçekten canlı hissetmek için, her şeyi tehlikeye sokarak, hayatlarından, ayrıca kendilerinden dışarı atladıklarını söylemem gerekirdi. Hepsinin, kendilerini korkularının içine, korkularının havasız fıçısına kapatarak bunu yaptıklarını ona söylemem gerekirdi. Orası çok küçük, çok karanlıktır, içinde yalnızsındır, soluk almakta güçlük çekersin. Olayları değiştirmek için yapılabilecek hiçbir şey yoktur; eğer birileri bizim için oraya küçük bir müzik koyma özenini göstermişse şanslıyız demektir; ya da bizi eve, herhangi bir eve götürmek üzere nehrin bir kıvrıntısında bekleyen bir dostumuz varsa kendimizi yine şanslı hissedebiliriz. Ona bunu söylemem gerekirdi.”
Alessandro Baricco, Smith & Wesson

Plato
“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.”
Plato, Republic

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