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"I think that babies are angels when they drink only milk, that first year. They could fly right back to where they came from, to the milk in the clouds. When they get teeth it is the beginning of the end, they become animals and there's no going back."

"And then I thought - isn’t it strange, isn’t it strange about Jesus? That is to say, about Jesus being a man? For it is women who are eaten - who turn their bodies into food - I gave up my blood - there was so much blood - and I gave up my body - but I couldn’t feed her, could not turn my body into food, and she was so hungry. I suppose that makes me an inferior kind of woman and a very inferior kind of Jesus."

“That’s too bad. I find people who do not use umbrellas while it is raining horribly romantic. Strolling, no striding, through the rain with wet hair, looking at a drop of water on a branch.”

“A person was has loved—the memory of their hands. Did they flutter or sit still? Dry? Moist? Cool on a hot forehead? What? That is what I wish to express in my paintings. The memory—of the movement—of very particular hands, even though they appear to be unmoving on canvas.”

so you’re telling me i get to read a play on how vibrator addiction started in the 1880s?!

i get to read this masterpiece for school?!