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“Do not be sad, he said. You have begun your own journey, not into the world, like your friend’s, but into yourself and your memories. As they fall away, perhaps you will attain that enviable emptiness into which all things flow.”

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when ur chronically depressed friend starts reading a dodgy non fiction abt mental health

“Never to think of a thing or being we love but have not actually before our eyes without reflecting that perhaps this thing has been destroyed, or this person is dead. May our sense of reality not be dissolved by this thought but made more intense. […] If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”

“Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. To accept the fact that they are other than the creatures of our imagination is to imitate the renunciation of God. I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

“What is the reason that as soon as one human being shows he needs another the latter draws back from him? Gravity.”

psychologically uncircumcised

no because this is actually crazy

little women allusion was odd. like all trans books this is bringing up a deep well of shame in me. yay!

“The future of technology threatens to destroy all that is human in mankind, but technology doesn’t reach madness; and so that’s where the human part of mankind has sought refuge.”

literally Lispector is obsessed with rats 😖

everyone needs to get to this asap fcking thank you tourmaline

“Suzanne, her head in her arms, did nothing but protect herself, patiently. She forgot that this force came from her mother, she endured it as she would have endured the wind, the waves, or any impersonal force.”

“Forgive them, they believe in fate and are therefore fated themselves.”

“loving the impure was our deepest nostalgia”

“The damage we see in the natural world around us is a mirror, a reflection of the damage we see within ourselves” in relation to the world we’ve created around us. Innate disorder

“it was a kind of suffragette Kate Chopin look but greasy”

Halle Butler just gets me

“On those pages she had tried only to rid herself of her dreams, and these dreams seemed to deal only with sexual surrender and infant death, commonplaces of the female obsessional life. We all have the same dreams.”

on flicking the contents of a cigarette into a potted plant: “I had seen men do this often and I had seen women do it in the field but I had never before seen a woman in a beige silk St. Laurent dress do it in a restaurant which passed for fashionable…”

“The Imitation of The Rose” is one of the most stunning short stories I have ever read.

okay the Anna Karenina spoiler. Ouch.

“As an adult, I had to dig myself out of myself, had to make myself into a ruin from which something new could grow.”

“A mother is a library seconds before the tornado strikes.”

Sadism & Freud rant

& Marguerite Duras mention YUP

&&&&& Vaping

King Henry IV, Cagots, Jacques, slaughterings, like i am SOOOOO tuned into this

More hating on Play it as it Lays except Anolik manipulates a Bret Easton Ellis quote to claim in his wiser years has decided Slow Days is much better than Play it as it lays because it has humor (even though Play it as it Lays inspired his first novel and is a touchstone of his life…)