“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another;
(I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd;
Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
”
―
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another;
(I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd;
Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)
”
―
“Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.”
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
― The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exists. HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism”
― America: The Farewell Tour
― America: The Farewell Tour
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