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“In every accessible reality, in each being, the place of sacrifice, the wound must be found. A being is only touched at the point where it succumbs …”

— Georges Bataille (1897-1963), from “Guilty”, translated from the French by Stuart Kendall (via finita–la–commedia)

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“But I cannot help it. I only want to be alone. I want to be myself and alone and free to breathe, live, look upon the world and find it however it is…”

— Martha Gellhorn, from Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (via luthienne)

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Persona,1966

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Thelma (2017) dir. Joachim Trier

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by Takuma Nakahira / 中平卓馬 Night / 夜 1, ca. 1968

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You have looked at me a million times but you have never seen me.

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I want to speak to you not about happiness, but about endurance – about how we remain human by recognising each other in the dark.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to Merline, 1919-1922

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I also felt that she was holding herself together with a safety pin, was forcing herself to be clear, articulate, active—to keep moving, one step ahead of the sledgehammer of grief.

James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen