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A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? —OSCAR WILDE, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
I ate the mythology & dreamt. —YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, “BLACKBERRIES”
“When you do magic, there are two stages: focus and surrender. Surrender is the part that so many do not understand.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure, and we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us. —RAINER MARIA RILKE, “THE FIRST ELEGY,” DUINO ELEGIES
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
A word is dead When it is said Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. —EMILY DICKINSON, “VI. A WORD.”
talismans that might actually keep the monsters at bay. Until she realized that she was one of the monsters.
Better to reign in Hell, then to serve in Heav’n. —JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST (BOOK I)
