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inspiration side-blog for @cerbrs

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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) dir. by Park Chan-wook

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Nemesis inhabited a dark paradise of her own making. She never held back. I loved her for her frightful hatred, her frightful love. I admired her stunning passion for revenge; the mercilessness in her eyes.

Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Hellish,”

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And behind all the myths and masks: / her soul, which is always alone.

Jorge Luis Borges, from Susana Bombal (tr. by Paul Weinfield)

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“Look at my face: I am not afraid of any man alive.”

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947

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The main thing, when a sword cuts into one’s soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry, featured in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (via watchoutforintellect)

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LADY VENGEANCE

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Did you cut your hands on me? Are my edges sharp?

Sufjan Stevens, “Enchanting Ghosts”, All Delighted People (2010)