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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.”
― Dashiell Hammett

“If women really want a relationship to last, all they have to do is never sleep with us and we will happily spend the rest of our lives chasing them.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years

“A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.”
― Jacques Lacan, Écrits