“Nothing in this house moves until you look away, and then you just catch something from the corner of your eye.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“Fortunately there are wars. And rationing is one of the grandest inventions of man. You stamp paper with figures and you feed stomachs on numbers.”
― The Cat and Shakespeare
― The Cat and Shakespeare
“You take away economic security and the whole pack of cards collapses. Everyone is at each other’s throats. All these vaunted bourgeois values that prop up society – love, duty, honour, respect – all rest on power-relations lubricated by economics. They are the gloss people put on the naked truth: self-interest.”
― The Lives of Others
― The Lives of Others
“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
― The Spice-Box of Earth
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
― The Spice-Box of Earth
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