Sarah Kane - Phaedra's Love (1996)

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I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

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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

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There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

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Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

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I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

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I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

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It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

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To feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

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I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

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