Dog Years
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Below the room, in the kitchen, a goose lay in the oven, sizzling in its own fat. This the goose did in the third year of the Great War, when geese had become so rare that the goose was looked upon as a species close to extinction.
“When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelist to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
― Les Liaisons Dangereuses
― Les Liaisons Dangereuses
“I wish I wasn't such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.”
― Initial Meeting
― Initial Meeting
“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“It is here that what I call the outpouring of dream into real life began. From that moment, everything took on a double aspect at times, and this occurred without my reason lacking logic and without my memory loosing the slightest details of what happened to me. But my actions, seemingly unconscious, were dominated by what human reason calls illusion.”
― Aurelia: The Dream and the Life
― Aurelia: The Dream and the Life
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