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these people are not emergencies, they are calamities.
“Shall I project a world?”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
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“The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
“there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be loved
if I do not love you I shall not love”
― Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be loved
if I do not love you I shall not love”
― Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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