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“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
“I myself am an absolute abyss.”
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”
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“...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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