“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
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“Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.”
― The Elementary Particles
― The Elementary Particles
“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”
― The Elementary Particles
― The Elementary Particles
“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.”
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
― Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
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