People also talk of a “criminal consciousness.” All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have
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“God has died, and his death was the life of the world.”
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung
“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
“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
“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“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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