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“What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.”
― The Foreign Legion
― The Foreign Legion
“And suddenly the idea comes into your head that perhaps now, at this very moment while you are passing by, in one of the rooms behind those drab shutters, at a worm-eaten desk, among bundles of papers tied up with red or green tape, with scratchy old-fashioned penstrokes, your fate is being inscribed”
― Sleep Has His House
― Sleep Has His House
“What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?”
― The Oresteia of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides. The Greek text as arranged for performance at Cambridge with an English verse translation
― The Oresteia of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides. The Greek text as arranged for performance at Cambridge with an English verse translation
“My partner had made perhaps ten strokes before the sap rose within him and he fell upon my back, smothering me like a collapsing building.”
― 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
― 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
“Alan said he'd known what to expect from de St Jorre from the kick-off, since in his preface this cretin speaks of banned books being burnt in the same way heretics were burnt by religious tyrants. Alan was quick to denounce the cruel inhumanity of liberal fuckwits who wantonly blurred the lines between human life and products of a literary culture that had yet to escape its commodity form.”
― 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
― 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess
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