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Sara Baume Quotes: "I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me."

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.



Sara Baume Quotes: "This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins."

This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins.




Sara Baume Quotes: "This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand."

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.



Sara Baume Quotes: "What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time."

What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.




Sara Baume Quotes: "Sometimes things happen that give me cause to believe I no longer exist. Car park barriers which do not lift when I drive towards them, automatic doors which do not open automatically as I approach."

Sometimes things happen that give me cause to believe I no longer exist. Car park barriers which do not lift when I drive towards them, automatic doors which do not open automatically as I approach.



Sara Baume Quotes: "And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion."

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.



Sara Baume Quotes: "But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old."

But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.




Sara Baume Quotes: "I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more."

I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.



Sara Baume Quotes: "In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone."

In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.



Sara Baume Quotes: "I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours."

I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours.



Sara Baume Quotes: "But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy."

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.



Sara Baume Quotes: "But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious."

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.




Sara Baume Quotes: "Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring a foundation of disappointment, of uncertainty."

Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring a foundation of disappointment, of uncertainty.



Sara Baume Quotes: "I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me."

I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me.



Sara Baume Quotes: "Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?"

Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?



Sara Baume Quotes: "No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly."

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.



Sara Baume Quotes: "But no, now I see I never meant to Ben what Ben meant to me. If there was anything I said which resonated in return, he found a better speech elsewhere. My romance went no further than his coat."

But no, now I see I never meant to Ben what Ben meant to me. If there was anything I said which resonated in return, he found a better speech elsewhere. My romance went no further than his coat.



Sara Baume Quotes: "And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly."

And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.



Sara Baume Quotes: "It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement."

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.



Sara Baume Quotes: "See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it."

See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.



Sara Baume Quotes: "My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations."

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.



Sara Baume Quotes: "I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair."

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.



Sara Baume Quotes: "I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable."

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.



Sara Baume Quotes: "Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die."

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.



Sara Baume Quotes: "I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good"

I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good



Sara Baume Quotes: "Art, and sadness, which last forever."

Art, and sadness, which last forever.



Sara Baume Quotes: "Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?"

Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?



Sara Baume Quotes: "I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not."

I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.



Sara Baume Quotes: "How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril."

How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.



Sara Baume Quotes: "In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty."

In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.