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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
― Paul Valéry, Selected Writings

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.”
― Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories

“The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty’s limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one’s control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics

“When writing personal letters I have sometimes gone too far. Maybe belief and trust in another’s love is an obsessional desire to control a wayward eyewitness. I could go on and on about the origins of transference via H. D. and The Sword Went Out to Sea but a foreword is a like a fish tank so there isn’t room here for leaping dolphins, solo séances, hallucinatory visions, dead pilots, the atomic bomb, nervous breakdowns, the Küsnacht clinic March–November 1946.

Sigh sough rough wind world war.”
― Susan Howe, Debths

“Intimately, and if it were hypothetically within my power; for what it has dreadfully done, and all that it continues doing to the world by its primary global influence - I'd wish to see the leading force of U.S. imperialism wiped from the very face of the Earth, and America returned to the rightful indigenous, with our world soon on the path, cured of this unending curse of modernity.”
― MuzWot