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“I burned my life, that I might find A passion wholly of the mind,”

— Louise Bogan, from “The Alchemist,” Body of This Death (Robert M. McBride, 1923)

— Louise Bourgeois, from a diary entry featured in Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father.

— Slipknot from “Birth Of The Cruel.”

“I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.”

— Tana French, In The Woods

“There’s something unique about sadness. So unique you wouldn’t even dare to trade it for an illusion of happiness. It makes your thoughts clear and heart heavy. But it feels like a battle inside your mind worth fighting.”

— M. N. Lowery

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy” — Henry Miller

“Poet, writer, whoever you are, what you write are letters to yourself that you often refuse to admit.”

— j.d (via wnq-writers)