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“Art has no meaning if it’s not an escape. If it’s not born of a prisoner’s despair. I can’t respect any art that comforts and relieves, those novels and music and paintings designed to make your prison more bearable.”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
“the world was new and warm, just out of the oven, and it was all for me!”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
“As a writer, you make yourself less real with each book you write. [...] The despair you feel is that of one who lives in two dimensions and is trapped inside a square, in the middle of an infinite piece of paper.”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
“Human beings would not experience the density of other human beings as a mass if they themselves had not become mass-like in their own souls.”
― Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
― Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
“In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow. Through belief, we see the future and already inhabit it.”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
Philosophy
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