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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.”
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
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“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
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