“It began to seem it had always been winter and that there was nothing else, just a vague awareness to make note of the fact. The universe was a dreary place, asleep, cold all the way to infinity, and the wind was a separate thing, not part of the winter, but a lost, unloved soul, screaming and moaning and rushing about looking for a place to rest and reckon
up its woes.”
― Abel's Island
up its woes.”
― Abel's Island
“That’s how I live, that’s how I die: in doubt.
One calls me back, the other kicks me out;
So from one source my joy and sadness rise.”
― Cassandra
One calls me back, the other kicks me out;
So from one source my joy and sadness rise.”
― Cassandra
“No one strays farther from the goal than he who imagines that he already knows the strange realm, that he can explain its structure in few words and everywhere find the right path.”
― The Novices of Sais
― The Novices of Sais
“If unfulfilled desire yearns for infinite heights, happy love likes to sink into bottomless depths.”
― The Novices of Sais
― The Novices of Sais
“I've known few people who have survived the tests of pain and violence-a rare feat-with their capacity for tenderness intact.”
― Days and Nights of Love and War
― Days and Nights of Love and War
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