““I don’t have anything to nourish me: I eat myself.””
— Clarice Lispector from, A Breath of Life
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“IDK how y’all do this 9-5 shit”
– Karl Marx
“I don’t want to return, at least not as a human being. I’d rather be a tree, or a bunch of kudzu or even a moth. I’d rather be a school of fish. ‘A whole school?’ I can hear my sister asking. ‘Why not just one fish?’ Because one fish in a school is the same as the whole school, but different, and I want to know what that feels like. Plus I love the way they swim in gestures.”
— Abigail Thomas, from “Forgetting,” Brevity (no. 57, January 2018)
I hate when people tell me I’m “quiet” lmao I just don’t fuck with you
when fyodor dostoevsky said “i, over here, keep thinking of all these things, and my heart beats fast”
“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”
— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet
“I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking, and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.”
Louise Bourgeois
“I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.”
— Alberto Caeiro, from untitled poem, The Amorous Shepherd (8 November 1929)
“I just want to be me – I just want to be useful and… content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose, one that I can look at without feeling I’m less than I was.”
Ellis O’Neal, The False Princess
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