#p. 126

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To sleep . . . like everyone else. All night long to be like any other being . . . What a pity that it takes place in the unconscious.

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, The Angel and the Perverts, 1930, translated by Anna Livia

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‘Ironically, while [Renée Vivien’s] acute awareness of how male perspectives dominated and shaped Sappho’s place in literary tradition may have inspired her efforts to recuperate Sappho as a lesbian poet, it also fueled her fears for the future of her own work. She devoted an enormous amount of creative energy to clearing up the core of traditional misunderstandings about Sappho — namely, her sexual orientation — by generating and promoting her own “fiction” of a Sappho who wrote unambiguously for and about women.’

— Tama Lea Engelking, ‘Renée Vivien’s Sapphic Legacy: Remembering the “House of the Muses”’, Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal

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La fe no es un deseo. La fe es una Voluntad. Los deseos siempre son cosas que se rellenan, la Voluntad es una fuerza. La Voluntad cambia el espacio que está a nuestro alrededor[...]

Deidre O'neill, conocida como Edda. La Bruja de Portobello.