“I still felt that the good things, the things I wanted, belonged to somebody else.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“If you want something and can't have it, want something else. Want what you deserve. You'll probably get it.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“In every man’s memories there are such things as he will reveal not to everyone, but perhaps only to friends. There are also such as he will reveal not even to friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. Then, finally, there are such as a man is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man will have accumulated quite a few things of this sort.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time. I thought if I did normal things - held down a job, for example - I could starve off the part of me that hated everything.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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