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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.
“How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that -- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“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
“I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.”
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“God has died, and his death was the life of the world.”
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
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