Rex Nobody

“Alas! alas!" the naked woman exclaimed. "What have you done?"

I said to her: "I prefer you to him. Because I pity the unhappy. It is not your fault eternal justice has created you."

And she said: "One day men will do me justice; I will say no more to you. Let me go and hide my infinite sadness at the bottom of the sea. Only you, and the hideous monsters who swarm in those black depths do not despise me. You are good. Adieu, you who have loved me."

I, to her: " Adieu, once more adieu! I will always love you. From today, I abandon virtue.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and Poems

“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.”
― Michel Tournier, Gilles & Jeanne

“...steer clear of the love of dark sorceresses.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and Poems