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“He has made clear the idea of punishment. I take Hugo to the rue Blondel and incite him to infidelity to punish myself for my own infidelities. I glorify June to punish myself for having betrayed her.” I don’t think people understand how profound this self-analysis was

“…you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. And what makes you do that—love? Oh, it is beautiful to love, and to be free at the same time.” get out of my head, get out of my fantasy realm

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” and I live by that, no truly I do, check the birth chart!

“After all, if there is an explanation of the mystery it is this: The love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony. In the love between man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other, brutalize each other, or find anything to ridicule. They surrender to sentimentality, mutual understanding, romanticism. Such love is death, I'll admit."

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demonic destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.” I sobbed uncontrollably reading this

“Her beauty drowned me. As I sat in front of her I felt that I would do anything mad for her, anything she asked of me. Henry faded. She was color, brilliance, strangeness.” Only a woman could write this about another woman

“Or is this not the secret of the obstacle between us?— that his type is the large, buxom woman, heavy on the earth, while I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman” - this quote alone has single handedly changed thousands of Tumblrinas lives from around the world

I did not find this book, this book found me

Is this fucking play about me?

“Have I not suffered enough that you seek to increase my misery? Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” Heart = caved in. Feeling maternal for the creature.

I’ve reached the boring part

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.”

I am reading the 1831 version but I couldn’t find it on here so this will have to do for now

What a bore…

Cracking open a cold one with the girls

“For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl's life mean?”

In ‘The Queen’, quote "The others [women]... how you have to search for the animal in them. They have diluted it, disguised it, perfumed it, so it will smell like something else-like what? Angels?”

Anaïs evolving so much as a writer, The Women on the Dunes is a sexy read

Ah shit, here we go again

Marco Pierre White mention

I read Kitchen Confidential prior to this (didn’t log it, will later) and there’s such a huge difference in writing in comparison to this book. Anthony has tremendous appreciation and zest for life and enhancing it through food and culture and travel, but at the same time he feels out of place and becomes a little nihilistic. I am running out of writing space ah!

She’s backkkk (me to reading)

“Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. So imperceptibly I found myself adopting a new attitude towards the other half of the human race….. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.”

Episodic mood and personality disorders mentioned, I knew she was one of us

Happy New Year to disturbed women w/ mommy issues!