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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

A scrimshawed and polychromed double comb, sailors love token, British, mid 19th century

Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit and Three Other Plays; “The Flies”

Text ID: An evil thing is only conquered by another evil thing

“I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

— Georges Bataille - My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man

Analicia Sotelo, “My Mother as the Face of God”

The wish to be about to kill a lover, to keep him for yourself, yourself alone, to take him, steal him in defiance of every law, every moral authority—you don't know what that is, you've never experienced it?

Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr. Barbara Bray

from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller (1932-1953)

Whatever man *accepts you for who you are*

i love it when characters are codependent. i love it when losing someone feels like losing a limb. i love it when two people "complete" each other so wholly and terribly that one can barely function without the other. i love it when the fear of losing the only person who understands them is so all-consuming they'll destroy anything to stay together, including themselves.

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

This is just...eeeeeee! So good!

The Red Room

5 days of work, finished this today with a fever yay. If you excuse me now, I think I'm gonna pass out.

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