“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children’s faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.”
― Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
― Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”
― The Purple Cloud
― The Purple Cloud
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