February 2012
102 posts
And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being...
– T. S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
Which kingdom is it that you long for most?
Will you choose a heavenly crown...
– from “The Downfall of the Kingdom of Serbia”
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Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via ziegenmilch)
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets...
– Anna Akhmatova, from “A land not mine, still” (translated by Jane Kenyon)
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When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered...
– Antonin Artaud (via imbrogliorosso)
What saved me is the idea of suicide. Without the idea of suicide I would have...
– E.M. Cioran http://youtu.be/zmvRMVMrzA4 (courtesy of fantastic-life)
Your life was less sad than your suicide might suggest.
– Édouard Levé, Suicide, trans. Jan Steyn (via proustitute)