“I’ve had too much experience in life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men, some of them are not. And half the time the best of them don’t know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.”
― The Thirteen Problems
― The Thirteen Problems
“The glutton has become pure again," William said to me.
"But is this purity?" I asked, horrified.
"There must be some other kind as well," William said, "but, however it is, it always frightens me."
"What terrifies you most in purity?" I asked.
"Haste," William answered.”
―
"But is this purity?" I asked, horrified.
"There must be some other kind as well," William said, "but, however it is, it always frightens me."
"What terrifies you most in purity?" I asked.
"Haste," William answered.”
―
“Но все-таки хорошо, когда много цветов и друзей.”
― The Thirteen Problems
― The Thirteen Problems
“I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody that will inspire me with passion. You know, it’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness…there is even a moment, right at the start, where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it, you don’t do it. I know that I shall never jump again.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
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