“It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great. To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident of one's moment of being.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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