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“I myself am an absolute abyss.”
― Antonin Artaud

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

“You think I'm a sissy?
I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.”
― Catullus, The Complete Poems

“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.”
― Antonin Artaud

“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
― Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.”
― Antonin Artaud

“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
― Jonathan Swift

“All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.”
― Joe Orton

“Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.”
― Derek Jarman

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

“Here, we rebuilt the Leftist theater. There, we rebuilt the carnival of stars to assemble the next barricades in evening gowns. Theory for the sake of theory collided with madness for the sake of madness,and they both tried to reconcile themselves in the imperialism of youth and beauty.”
― Guy Hocquenghem, The Screwball Asses

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

“I knew every raindrop by its name.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son

“
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
”
― Richard Ford

“The worse the author, the more he is known.”
― James Purdy

“Τριαντάφυλλα 'ναι θεϊκά στην κόλαση πεσμένα.”
― Διονύσιος Σολωμός

“I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
― André Malraux

“I am not particularly interested in
saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living”
― Reinaldo Arenas

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth