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[night-thief]

a poem of my own, should I post more?

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[night-thief]

What crimes have you enacted?

“Love makes me forget myself sometimes. I am horribly angry, I am sick with it.”

- Rebecca Tamás, Poems "Witch"

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"And it was Death itself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I felt a strange longing."

- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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"I'm not tragic these days, I don't weep, but I feel alone, bewildered, far from you, far from everything - nothing has any meaning."

- Simone de Beauvoir

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

- Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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I have drawn your portrait with the colors of nostalgia and sprinkled over it stardusts that travelled through my veins.

- Unknown, Your Portrait

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"In the silence I suddenly understood the many ways a person can die but still be alive."

- Carmen Rodrigues, 34 Pieces of You

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“She preferred most of all to live with flowers and music and to have a book, in quiet solitude.”

- Hermann Hesse / Iris, Fairytales of Hermann Hesse

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"December. This heart full of tears and of night."

- Albert Camus, Carnets 1942-1951 (Hamilton, 1966)

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"Isolate as much as you want to become stronger, even if you see that loneliness is an unbearable hell, it is much better than the multiple masks of humans."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean sugary' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain."

- Catherine Breillat

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Some nights I wake and everything hurts a little. It is amazing how long a ruined thing will burn.

- Paul Guest, 1987.

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"Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always."

- Susan Sontag, I, Etcetera: Stories

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How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

- Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light

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"Swallow the tears back often enough and they'll start feeling like acid dripping down your throat."

- Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me (Shatter Me)

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

- Franz Kafka