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Writing fiction is this kind of staring, too. You have to stare at your characters, like you would a stranger on the train, but for much longer than is comfortable for both of you.
“He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole. Thus there is such a thing as being too profound. Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”
― The Murders in the Rue Morgue
― The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.”
― Complete Tales and Poems
― Complete Tales and Poems
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