“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?”
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.”
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.”
― Water Dark
― Water Dark
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