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“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”

— Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela (via amargedom)

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976) Alexander McQueen - Joan (1998)

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#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

megairea

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, 1996. (via megairea)

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Anna Akhmatova, from The Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova; “The Muse,”

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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That craving for darkness, the lust to feel what it does to you when your teeth meet in divinity, in the flesh.

Margaret Atwood, from Eating Snake (via wishbzne)

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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‘I am not unhappy,’ she said. 'Nor am I content. There is nothing in my heart. I care for no one, and for nothing. I dream of dogs with bared teeth. I am dead. It is not so bad to be dead.’

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (via dobbuscay)

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

lifeinpoetry

She is not afraid of gods. She leaves her skin, still coiled, a great throat collapsed. Gods have entered and left.

— Amber Flora Thomas, from “Shed,” Red Channel in the Rupture

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

objetpetita

“I myself am an absolute abyss.”

- Antonin Artaud, as quoted in The Diary of Anais Nin

“I myself am war.”

- Georges Bataille, Acéphale

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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I have the whole world raging under my skin. I’ve always been a girl armed for war.

And war has learned to fear me // L.H.Z (via lhzthepoet)

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .

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“My whole being is a scream …” – Hélène Cixous, Inside (Schocken Books, New York / 1986) “My whole being is a dark chant …” – Forugh Farrokhzad, ‘Another Birth’

#WITH EACH DEATH . I BECOME GHOSTLY . GHOSTLIER — / A MISTRANSLATION .