“I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Do you believe in God? I don't think I ever asked you that one. Well I do now.
God’s a house. Which is not to say that our house is God’s house or even a house of God. What I mean to say is that our house i̲s̲ God.”
― House of Leaves
God’s a house. Which is not to say that our house is God’s house or even a house of God. What I mean to say is that our house i̲s̲ God.”
― House of Leaves
“Can’t you see that I don’t want your benevolence? A strange desire you have to shower benefits on a man who… curses them, who feels them a burden in fact! Why did you seek me out at the beginning of my illness? Maybe I was very glad to die.”
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“I have come to tell you that though you will be unhappy, you must believe that your son loves you now more than himself, and that all you thought about me, that I was cruel and didn’t care about you, was all a mistake. I shall never cease to love you…”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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