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    Sarah Kane

    A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

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    Sarah Kane

    But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave what do you offer. " ...if I could remember any more of my lines I'd add them so basically this is a preface to the whole play. I would like to quote the whole play. Currently my mind is afraid to remember the play.

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    Sarah Kane

    Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

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    Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

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    Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

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    Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

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    Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

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    Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

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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 am the beast at the end of the rope.

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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 don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

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

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    If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

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    I love you still, Against my will.

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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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    No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

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    Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

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    Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

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    Sarah Kane

    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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    She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

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    Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

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    the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

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

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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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    What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

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    You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

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    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.

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    Sarah Kane

    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.

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    And I go out at six in the morning and start my search for you. If I've dreamt a message of a street or a pub or a station I go there. And I wait for you.

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

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    And when I don’t feel it, it’s pointless. Think about getting up it’s pointless. Think about eating it’s pointless. Think about dressing it’s pointless. Think about speaking it’s pointless. Think about dying only it’s totally fucking pointless.

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    Sarah Kane

    drowning in a sea of logic this monstrous state of palsy

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    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.

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    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.

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    Sarah Kane

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

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    HIPPOLYTUS: No one burns me, no one fucking touches me. So don’t try.

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    I am jealous of my sleeping lover and cover his induced unconsciousness.

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    I am much fucking angrier than you think.

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    It's fear that keeps me away from the train tracks.

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    I've faked orgasms before, but this is the first time I've faked not having an orgasm.

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    I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they want. 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 fucking deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.

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    - 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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    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?

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    Some will call this self-indulgence (They are lucky not to know its truth) Some will know the simple fact of pain This is becoming my normality

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    the capture the rapture the rupture of a soul a solo symphony

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    They will love me for that which destroys me.

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    Usłysz mnie, dostrzeż mnie, dotknij mnie, kochaj mnie, uwolnij mnie!