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“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.”
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“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness.”
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in love with the art of madness.”
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“A man going quietly about his business all day long expends far more muscular energy than an athlete who lifts a huge weight once a day. This has been proved physiologically, and so the social sum total of everybody's little everyday efforts, especially when added together, doubtless releases far more energy into the world than do rare heroic feats. This total even makes the single heroic feat look positively minuscule, like a grain of sand on a mountaintop with a megalomaniacal sense of its own importance.”
― The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
― The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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