“My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”
― Mister God, This is Anna
― Mister God, This is Anna
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day”
― Aeneid I
― Aeneid I
“He sometimes daydreamed about sitting beside her in a beautiful meadow and just counting her freckles.”
― The Boy Who Lost His Face
― The Boy Who Lost His Face
“For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.”
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“This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.”
― Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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