In the course of my life I have discovered that a fearful abyss lies between me and other people and have realized that my best course is to remain silent and keep my thoughts to myself for as long as I can.
“Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“God has died, and his death was the life of the world.”
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
“they asked "do you love her to death?"
i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
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i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
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“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
― The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
― The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
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