“I had always been alone and wouldn't have minded if it had been a matter of choice. It never had been. I dreamed of being integrated, if only to give myself the luxury of subsequently disintegrating.”
― Antichrista
― Antichrista
“Si para todo hay término y hay tasa
y última vez y nunca más y olvido
¿quién nos dirá de quién en esta casa,
sin saberlo, nos hemos despedido?”
― El otro, el mismo/Para las seis cuerdas/Elogio de la sombra
y última vez y nunca más y olvido
¿quién nos dirá de quién en esta casa,
sin saberlo, nos hemos despedido?”
― El otro, el mismo/Para las seis cuerdas/Elogio de la sombra
“I found out that the question was not ‘am I good enough to write?’, because of course I am not. The question was, ‘am I able to live without writing?’. It is the only question.”
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“That was what university was: thinking you were going to open yourself up to a universe, and meeting nobody.”
― Antichrista
― Antichrista
“In actual fact, creatures like Sabine and myself were the guilty ones: rather than approaching their kin and comforting one another, they loved beyond their means - they needed individuals a thousand miles from their own complexes, they needed Christas, radiant and seductive personalities. And then they were astonished that their friendships turned out badly, as though anything like that could possibly work, a panther with a mouse, a shark with a sardine.”
― Antichrista
― Antichrista
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