“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.”
― Moralist
― Moralist
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