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『dum spiro spero.』

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Salazar, 23, Purgatory. INFP. Vegan.

Enclosed are the journals, sufferances, and myriad artistic influences of an androgyne writer-musician, struggling to make sense of the world and their place in it a night at a time.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
— Oscar Wilde

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Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
— Mary Rakow
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
— Ernest Hemingway

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I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another.
— Jonathan Tropper

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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…
— Aldous Huxley, Island

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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
— David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

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Isn’t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.
— David Coats on the inhumanity of man.

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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
— Sylvia Plath

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Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?
—  David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
— Anaïs Nin

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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
— Henry Rollins

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
— William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Pater

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Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.
— F. Butler

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