Blood Red and Bittersweet
January 2012
“Your ability to withstand pain is your claim to fame. It is ascetic, holy. It is self control. It is masochism, and masochism is pleasurable to many, but we don’t like to think about that. We don’t like to think that a person could have a twisted autoerotic life going on, be both a top and a bottom, and experience both at once: the pleasure of beating the hell out of a body shackled at the wrists, and the pleasure of being the body and knowing we deserve each blow.”
—Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Being Dead While You’re Alive — That’s Real Death.”
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Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin on Death and Dreams
from biblioklept
(via billyjane)
