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“you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.

you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.

there are no lines
that can hold you.

there are not enough words
for all the more that you are.”
― AVA., you are safe here.

“I only have one language: it is not mine. I remain in it and in¬habit it. It inhabits me. It always preceded me. It is me. I would not be myself outside it. It constitutes me, and also prescribes a monastic solitude for me, as if, even before learning to speak, I had been bound by some vows. Lastingly.” ---Jacques Élie Derrida

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
–Mark Twain

“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”― Jacques Lacan

“I want to be intoxicated by the darkened ether of midnight, running through my fingers as sparkling stardust."---― Jaeda DeWalt

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” ― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

"Don't get addicted to being human. This is only temporary."---Robert Monroe

"It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous."---Jean Baudrillard