Lukas

“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
― Paul Valéry, Selected Writings

“Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

“When writing personal letters I have sometimes gone too far. Maybe belief and trust in another’s love is an obsessional desire to control a wayward eyewitness. I could go on and on about the origins of transference via H. D. and The Sword Went Out to Sea but a foreword is a like a fish tank so there isn’t room here for leaping dolphins, solo séances, hallucinatory visions, dead pilots, the atomic bomb, nervous breakdowns, the Küsnacht clinic March–November 1946.

Sigh sough rough wind world war.”
― Susan Howe, Debths

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone