Girl, afraid

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No Love Lost by Joy Division. Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in...

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No Love Lost by Joy Division. Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in Control.

The most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt...

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The most beautiful suicide.

On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death.

The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure.

Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell for Requiem for a Dream.

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Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell for Requiem for a Dream.

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Life is a Pigsty by Morrissey. Can you stop this pain?

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Life is a Pigsty by Morrissey.

Can you stop this pain?

520. THAT SONG WAS NOT WRITTEN ABOUT YOU.

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IT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT ME, BITCH.

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"‘Nature is our enemy, we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us..."

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‘Nature is our enemy, we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it. It is we who have introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science. God only created coarse beings, who, after years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude. He only seems to have made them in order that they may reproduce their species in a repulsive manner and then die like ephemeral insects. I said, reproduce their species in a repulsive manner, and I adhere to that expression. What is there, as a matter of fact, more ignoble and more repugnant than that ridiculous act of the reproduction of living beings?’

‘Do you know how I picture God myself?’ he said. ‘As an enormous creative organ, unknown to us, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates, because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing, and is stupidly prolific in His work, and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by his scattered germs.’”

- Guy de Maupassant, Useless Beauty

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.

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