“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
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“There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to lead and ink on a page?”
― Our Hideous Progeny
― Our Hideous Progeny
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
“And actually it is not you at all I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Perhaps I am meant to drown after all. But if I do, then at least it will have been by my own hand.”
― Our Hideous Progeny
― Our Hideous Progeny
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