Status Updates From Animal Triste

“Believing I had lost Franz, I had no will left in me, and I gracefully accepted any sign from everyday coincidences that could be divined as a decision that had been taken from me.”

Oh no…

Re: love “the end is either tragic or banal, and you seem intent on the tragic ending.”

“It was more a longing for old times, for the time before the insidious sacrifice, for a pristine time when all ideals still seemed attainable, when the prospect of a conventional career and a conventional marriage still evoked disdain and contempt, a time when we knew exactly what we wanted and what we would never do.”

Fuck, I feel so seen by this book

“It may be true that somehow there is a connection between the two events, or it may just as well be the result of my unending remembering in search for meaning.” DAMN ok

I have to say, I love this book. It’s very beautiful. How had I never heard of it before?

“…Orpheus purposely turned around because he really didn’t want to save Eurydice; rather than wanting to love her, he wanted to sing to her of his immortal love unto death.”

“We always hope to be able to erase, as if by magic, for even a second, the strangeness that exists between the way we are and the image we have of ourselves, so we can just for once see ourselves as others see us and we see them. It remains a vain hope.”