

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
― Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
― Malone Dies
― Malone Dies

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