“I was, as it were, in pieces, soul and body. I had really forgotten my past and looked forward to no future, finding it difficult to imagine the possibility of surviving all the fatigue.”— Simone Weil, from a letter featured in “Waiting for God; The Letters and Notebooks,”
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“Why am I not in contact with my anger? What do I feel?”— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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“For me you were nothing in the least like a curiosity, I couldn’t pick and choose, I had to take everything.”— Franz Kafka, tr. by Ernst Kaiser, from “Letter to the Father,”
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“My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.”— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via antigonick)
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