when simone de beauvoir said “i’m reliving it, neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. that’s not easy. it’s at once painful and poetic.”
“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”— James Joyce, To Nora Barnacle Joyce, 7 September 1909 (via open-your-skull)
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