#αἰνελένη

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Claribel Alegría, from “From the Bridge”

Text ID: poor deluded thing / you learned the consolations / of philosophy / before understanding / why you had to be consoled

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Neville Goddard, from The Power of Awareness

Text ID: I AM is the self-definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests. I AM is the first cause-substance. I AM is the self-definition of God.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Monday, November 5

Text ID: —I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;

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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: Very early in my life it was too late.

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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.

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Adélia Prado, from “Denouement”; translated by Ellen Dori Watson

Text ID: I am beginning to despair / and can see only two choices: / either go mad or turn holy.

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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Thursday, October 18

Text ID: But my soul is heavy in my hands

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H.P. Blavatsky, from The Secret Doctrine

Text ID: The moon is the deity of the mind…

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Federico García Lorca, from Blood Wedding

Text ID: I want the blood running through my fingers to make a delicate sound.

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Simone Weil, from Waiting for God

Text ID: [...] true creation means self-loss.

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Crowned dragon as tail-eater; two dragons forming a circle and, in the four corners, signs of the four elements. — Eleazar, Uraltes chymisches Werk (1760)

Uroboros. — Codex Marcianus

C. G. Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy

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Anaïs Nin, from Ladders to Fire; “Cities of the Interior”

Text ID: I’m insatiable, you know. I’ll ask you for the impossible.

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Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “Portrait of Dora”

Text ID: To whom shall I address my / silence? My suicide?

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H.P. Blavatsky, from The Secret Doctrine

Text ID: The primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality.

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Adélia Prado, from The Mystical Rose: Selected Poems translated by Ellen Doré Watson; "Nigredo"

Text ID: this great darkness is / God / struggling to be born from my flesh.

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Zbigniew Herbert, from The Collected Poems: 1956-1998; “Revelation”

Text ID: filled with emptiness / i.e. with desire