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The Buddha apparently wanted it this way. Don’t worship a statue of me, he’d told his followers. If you must worship anything, worship a tree.
“Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.”
― The Thief's Journal
― The Thief's Journal
“I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
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“Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.”
― The Thief's Journal
― The Thief's Journal
“She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings...”
― Querelle of Brest
― Querelle of Brest
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