“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
“Love...no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.
- Bad Blood”
― A Season in Hell
- Bad Blood”
― A Season in Hell
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