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Dennis Cooper
“Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Dennis Cooper, Period

Charles Darwin
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
Charles Darwin

Thomas Ligotti
“This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot project itself as an affective experience. It is all a vacuous affair with only a chemical prestige. Nothing is either good or bad, desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it is made so by laboratories inside us producing the emotions on which we live. And to live on our emotions is to live arbitrarily, inaccurately—imparting meaning to what has none of its own. Yet what other way is there to live? Without the ever-clanking machinery of emotion, everything would come to a standstill. There would be nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to be, and no one to know. The alternatives are clear: to live falsely as pawns of affect, or to live factually as depressives, or as individuals who know what is known to the depressive. How advantageous that we are not coerced into choosing one or the other, neither choice being excellent. One look at human existence is proof enough that our species will not be released from the stranglehold of emotionalism that anchors it to hallucinations. That may be no way to live, but to opt for depression would be to opt out of existence as we consciously know it.”
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Cormac McCarthy
“I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.”
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

Peter Wessel Zapffe
“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
Peter Wessel Zapffe

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