“Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field-it was always there-where to be lost is never wrong, but simply more.
As a rule, be more.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As a rule, be more.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The one good thing about national anthems is that we’re already on our feet, and therefore ready to run. The truth is one nation, under drugs, under drones.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.”
― City of Night
― City of Night
“It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“This birth thing. And this death thing. Each one had it's turn. We entered alone and we left alone. And most of us lived lonely and frightened and incomplete lives. An incomparable sadness descended up on me. Seeing all that life that must die. Seeing all that life that would first turn to hate, to dementia, to neuroses, to stupidity, to fear, to murder, to nothing - nothing in life and nothing in death.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
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