“I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“You get on a train, you disappear.
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”
― Averno
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”
― Averno
“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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