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“Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Lying was as easy as saying nothing.”
― Inland
― Inland
“But ain’t that how we learn to be ourselves? Failing to impress them that matter most to us?”
― Inland
― Inland
“In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.”
― Child of God
― Child of God
“...y a partir de ese golpe el alma en pena del registrador civil contaría su historia, en todo momento con las palmas de sus manos sin dedos apretando las dos mitades de su cabeza para mantener los sesos en su sitio, que el realismo mágico no me es por completo ajeno.”
― Senselessness
― Senselessness
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