M. Alexandra Nesci > M.'s Quotes

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Narcissus does not die because he loves his image.
He dies because he cannot possess it.”

From Narcissus, my love”
― M. Alexandra Nesci, Narcissus, my love

“Take from a person the ability to speak in their own defense, and you erase them.
They cease to exist.
To strip someone of voice, will, pride;
to erase every trace that might one day testify —
they lived on this earth —
is the most atrocious crime one living being can inflict on another.”
― M. Alexandra Nesci, Manifesto of Persephone

“The entire tension of life is oriented toward thisdesire—until human beings finally discover themselves.And discover that they are not truly separate beings, butpart of the One and the All: an organism interconnectedwith other organisms. A single heartbeat that is theuniverse itself.The entire path of each one of us is an eternal returntoward what we are—not what we think we are.For everything moves in circles, within an endlessredundancy.”
― M. Alexandra Nesci, Narcissus, my love

“You can always spot a woman in love, that temporary type of lucid beauty… Her eyes are focused and she is gazing inwards… lips curved in the subtlest of smiles… She
radiates the world’s unknown, and the aura that shields her makes you move away when you pass her by… You feel that
she cannot be accidentally touched.”
― Dr jasmine, Love, Demystified

“Accidentally, “porn” could be defined as a cinematic equivalent of a one-night stand; and the huge revenue it generates
serves as proof of our need for a calming antidote, and our thirst for love, of which porn is one of the “ready to eat”
surrogates.”
― Dr Jasmine, Love, Demystified

“History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoléon Bonaparte”
― Pamela Crane, A Secondhand Lie