Jess

“To follow its shadow, to remain forever within it, she herself would have to become the sea. And at that moment, in a single great surge, she did.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“We can live the way the others do and yet conceal a ‘no’ greater than the world: that is melancholy’s infinity…”
― Emil M. Cioran

“If someone does me an injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love from him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Slow slow movements lifting over and under me. A distance from what has been preoccupying me. I walked along the cliff edge, feet holding the earth, the light around soft, sky so white. Then I knew I had experienced a kind of madness. Coming back to my body, a sense that I was perhaps someone else, some drifting thing that at least had found somewhere for inhabiting, not to remember happiness—just curiosity.

There has been a death recently no one has occupied the body since.

If going outside my body and I lose my ego what happens next? It no longer matters.”
― Ann Quin, Passages