“How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.”
― As I Lay Dying
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.”
― As I Lay Dying
“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.”
― The Horla
― The Horla
“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― The Nameless City
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― The Nameless City
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