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the pleasure of despair

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

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...it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

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And a horror seizes the heart; Should one gaze on stars and angels.

Georg Trakl, "Lament (I)" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Evening strikes so deep a wound!

Georg Trakl, "Lament (I)" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Incense sweetness on the crimson night wind.

Georg Trakl, "Helian" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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...when the dreamer’s heart / Overflows with crimson sunset,

Georg Trakl, "Limbo" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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A dark thing delights in the scent of violets;

Georg Trakl, "Year" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Enchanted rose-clouds.

Georg Trakl, "In Venice" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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From grey rooms step angels with filth-spattered wings.

Georg Trakl, "Psalm" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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nights / Filled with tears and angels afire.

Georg Trakl, "Föhn" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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When in decay the cold moon appears.

Georg Trakl, "Birth" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Dark autumn returns swollen with fruits and abundance...

Georg Trakl, "Autumn of the Solitary" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Outside the dark rooms of dreamers / At night he remained alone with his star;

Georg Trakl, "Kaspar Hauser Song" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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From the wound beneath his heart the crimson blood flowed out.

Georg Trakl, "Sebastian in Dream" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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...love and autumnal reverie.

Georg Trakl, "Sebastian in Dream" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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Oh, how sober is the hyacinthine face of twilight.

Georg Trakl, "Wayfaring" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)

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The final gold of failed stars.

Georg Trakl, "To the Boy Elis" from To the Silenced (trans. Will Stone)