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“I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself...”
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“i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours of decay - the most terrible experiences are often bereft of these properties of melodrama.”
― The Last of Philip Banter
― The Last of Philip Banter
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