Le beau mariage (Éric Rohmer, 1982)
You contain me I walk in the white silences of your mind
Margaret Atwood, A Soul, Geologically
No pictures of ourselves, no blue-sky summer fetishes
Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat
The Piano Teacher (2001) dir. Michael Haneke
My mind mastered by spasms of uncontrollable desire
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963.
Marina Tsvetaeva, from Three by Tsvetaeva
La Nuit la plus longue (1965), dir. José Bénazéraf
La Nuit la plus longue (1965), dir. José Bénazéraf
Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End
You seduced me diabolically. Without sadness or regret, I feel as if I’ve finally bitten the flesh of the fruit I thought was forbidden.
Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
I don’t need love! I’m not mourning over it. Allow me, Savior, to give up my soul —only shadows inhabit the quiet kingdom of my beloved shades.
Marina Tsvetaeva, from Evening Album
Dying must be a natural pleasure. After dying you don’t go to paradise, dying is the paradise.
Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures