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The shadow, 2023 - oil on linen — Daniela Astone (Italian, b.1980)
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everyone shut the fuck up and listen. i love decadence, i love filth, i love perversion; i love depravity and deviance and hedonism. i love corruption, i love the obscene. i love debauchery, i love all things sordid, i love the thrill of scandal. i love reveling in being a sicko. it brings me closer to god
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Time, 2016 - oil on canvas. — Devinez
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Tragic villains are my passion..........
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I know the horror of primal feelings, obsessions.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 29th September 1959
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I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoe-string adorable.
Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’
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[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.
Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950
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I do not know what so attracted me to him—those who say that certain souls recognize each other instantly and cling to one another inexplicably are right.
Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, tr. Jennifer Croft
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Willy Pogany (American, 1882–1955) - Hand to the Stars
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If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — July 1950 - July 1953
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Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems
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you can shit on cannibalism all you want but who aches for you so morbidly that the only way they feel satiated in loving you is to consume you?
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Yoshitaka Amano
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romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813
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Grace Freedson, Párrafo Magazine: The Death and Decay Issue; from ‘Phantasia for Maria Bonita’
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[...] the very idea of you alarms me [...]
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, from 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', tr. Ernest Dowson