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“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
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“Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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