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“... the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“But it’s the same thing whether it’s a cyst or a human being, thoughtlessness is the root of most misfortune, and if only people could see that when they’re looking after a cyst the main thing is to know how to do it properly, then the dogs would be all right and there would be nothing to fear. A fellow has only himself to blame.”
― Independent People
― Independent People
“But what’s the point of going in search of a life I never had, trying to pinpoint the moment I took a wrong turn? I understand only too well the sequence of events that led to our first meeting, which was so powerful that I found myself talking about it in the office of Deputy Sergeant Perret as if it had been just the day before. There’s no point getting lost in regret.”
― A Hymn to Life
― A Hymn to Life
“The weird thing is not wrong, after all: it is our conceptions that must be inadequate.”
― The Weird and the Eerie
― The Weird and the Eerie
“If the giant deer, at suitable intervals, had broken off the outer spears of its antlers, it might have kept going for some while longer. Yet in fever and constant pain, indeed, in betrayal of its central idea, the core of its peculiarity, for it was vocated by creation’s hand to be the horn bearer of wild animals. What it gained in continuance, it would lose in significance, in grandness of life, in other words a continuance without hope, a march not up to affirmation, but forth across its ever recreated ruins, a self-destructive race against the sacred will of blood.”
― The Last Messiah
― The Last Messiah
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