“Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
― Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
― Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
“It is pointless trying to decide whether Zenobia is to be classified among happy cities or among the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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