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01Undated

Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you. And I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing. Do you feel nothing?

Sarah Kane / quote

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02Undated

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

Sarah Kane / quote

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03Undated

Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

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04Undated

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.

Sarah Kane / quote

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05Undated

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

Sarah Kane / quote

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06Undated

We made love, and then she threw up.

Sarah Kane / quote

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07Undated

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Sarah Kane / quote

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08Undated

You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be okay.

Sarah Kane / quote

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09Undated

He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free.

Sarah Kane / quote

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10Undated

the capture the rapture the rupture of a soula solo symphony

Sarah Kane / quote

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11Undated

Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.

Sarah Kane / quote

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12Undated

Your disbelief cures nothing.

Sarah Kane / quote

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13Undated

I am much fucking angrier than you think.

Sarah Kane / quote

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14Undated

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

Sarah Kane / quote

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15Undated

HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in.

Sarah Kane / quote

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16Undated

I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what theywant. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me,no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fuckingdeep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.

Sarah Kane / quote

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17Undated

drowning in a sea of logicthis monstrous state of palsy

Sarah Kane / quote

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18Undated

I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

Sarah Kane / quote

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19Undated

- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.(Silence.)- I don't feel contempt.- No?- No. It's not your fault.- It's not your fault. That's all I ever hear, it's not your fault, it's an illness, it's not your fault, I know it's not my fault. You've told me that so often I'm beginning to think it is my fault.- It's not your fault.- I KNOW.- But you allow it.

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20Undated

A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone.

Sarah Kane / quote

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