“I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.”
― The Loser
― The Loser
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Because I never held you close, I hold you forever.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“Quiero saber por qué es bello vivir, quiero saber que vivir es bello. Quiero saberlo para mí. Hasta ahora he sabido de la vida en cuanto maldición y hecho casi insoportable.”
― Diarios
― Diarios
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