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“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?”
― Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
― Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“I was arrogant. It's a classic story of hubris. I'm like Icarus whose wings melted before he could fuck the sun.”
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“Perhaps that was the most perverse part of this: the inside-outness of everything, as if denial would make it go away, when it only made the pain in her chest tighten, when it only made her emotions clearer.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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