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“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― The Complete Poems
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― The Complete Poems
“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
“You could remember the sensual observations that made that day reality, and you could delude yourself into thinking - almost - that you could return to the past, and relive the days and hours in a quick space of time. But no, the quest of time past is more difficult than you think, and time present is eaten up by such plaintive searchings. The film of your days and nights is wound up tight in you, never to be re-run - and the occasional flashbacks are faint, blurred, unreal, as if seen through falling snow.”
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