July 2012
I am myself. That is not enough.
– Sylvia Plath (via killheji)
I’m buried to the hilt
like the knife,
after it’s thrown,
continues to bow...
– Robin Ekiss, from “The Death of Silence” (via proustitute)
June 2012
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Constantly committing epic suicides in your head that would go horribly wrong in real life.
Once I asked a serial killer what made him
get up in the morning, and he said...
– Sandra Beasley, from “Vocation” (via proustitute)
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.
– Issa, “[All the time I pray to Buddha],” trans. Robert Hass (via proustitute)
itwasdawnandgettinglighter oreveningandgrowingdarker
– László Krasznahorkai, Satantango, trans. George Szirtes (via proustitute)