“Cultural history, as well as observation of ourselves and others, allow the following answer: Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― The Last Messiah
― The Last Messiah
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“While the rain of your fingertips falls,
while the rain of your bones falls
and your laughter and marrow falls down,
you come flying.”
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while the rain of your bones falls
and your laughter and marrow falls down,
you come flying.”
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“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
Debbie Y’s 2025 Year in Books
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