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The day outside was full of changing light, and Jonas danced in and out of shadows as he followed me. When I ran Jonas ran, and when I stopped and stood still he stopped and glanced at me and then went briskly off in another direction, as though we were not acquainted, and then he sat down and waited for me to run again. We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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megairea
Nothing irrevocable had yet been spoken, but there was only the barest margin of safety left them; each of them moving delicately along the outskirts of an open question, and, once spoken, such a question — as “Do you love me?”— could never be answered or forgotten.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, 1959 (via megairea)

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derangedrhythms
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality...

Shirley Jackson, from 'The Haunting of Hill House'

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I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us, and break us apart in a matter of days. We have only one defense, and that is running away.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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glassribbon

“Estoy aquí, pero noviembre llega de color tristeza.” 

— Lucía Etxebarria, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas

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sun-death
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (Trans. Richard Howard)

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sun-death
There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems useless, light pernicious, even more oppressive than the darkness.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (Trans. Richard Howard)

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transphenomenality
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rchetypal
“Complexes do indeed behave like secondary or partial personalities possessing a mental life of their own. It is just as if the complex were an autonomous being capable of interfering with the intentions of the ego. Many complexes are split off from consciousness because the latter preferred to get rid of them by repression.”

- C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

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philosophybits
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt, “On Violence”, Crises of the Republic (via philosophybits)

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gravity-rainbow
Impotence breeds violence, and the more impotent these white groups feel the greater grows the danger of violence.
Hannah Arendt