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“I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.”
― Aleister Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley

“You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

“...through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. (...) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other rythms, makes him live in another "history".”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“Ten thousand dreams ensepulchered within their crozzled hearts.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road