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“Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Consiousness sticks language onto existence, papering over existential facts that stick out awkwardly; or it attached words to such objects like ropes whereby it can drag and fling them about as it pleases.”
― The adventures of Sumiyakist Q
― The adventures of Sumiyakist Q
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“So che fucilerai Gerineldo” disse serenamente, “e non posso far nulla per impedirlo. Ma ti avverto di una cosa: non appena avrò visto il cadavere, te lo giuro sulle ossa di mio padre e di mia madre, sulla memoria di José Arcadio Buendìa, te lo giuro davanti a Dio, che ti verrò a prendere fin dove ti sarai cacciato e ti ammazzerò con le mie stesse mani.” Prima di lasciare la stanza, senza attendere risposta, concluse:
“Avrei fatto la stessa cosa se tu fossi nato con la coda di maiale.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Avrei fatto la stessa cosa se tu fossi nato con la coda di maiale.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I love this landscape," the literary man began while they were walking through an irregular forest of pillars. "The only things here are /things/. The paint of meaning is peeled off. The things here have refused to be of any assistance at all to men.”
― The adventures of Sumiyakist Q
― The adventures of Sumiyakist Q
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