#corpse

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Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed.


A.S. Byatt


#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

Your words smell of corpses.


Georg Buchner


#smell #words #your

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.


Aleister Crowley


#arms #awakening #corpse #danced #doubt

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.


Bertolt Brecht


#death #objectivity #reality #death

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.


Heraclitus


#fit #more #out #than #thrown

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.


Ross MacDonald


#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth


#baby #bride #corpse #every #father

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.



Jarod Kintz


#beautiful #beauty #bizarre #corpse #dating

He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body. The order was as flexible as her corpse remained.


Thomm Quackenbush


#flexible #gore #dreams

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.


Asti Hustvedt


#corpse #robot #simulacra #woman #life