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can't lie fam im getting so bored

oscar wilde after prison: everything that happens to me is symbolic and irrevocable. i am dying beyond my means

djuna barnes in silence: she spent most of her time failing to write, and yet whatever little she wrote (in the context of her large life) lingers. that's oddly inspiring.

nabokov in raptures: moving and artificial books, unread letters, dostoevsky the cheap sensationalist, dr freud the medieval viennese quack, and it's all for véra

equally wretched: the angel and the oyster

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
“Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

lenù is not a good person i fear