“When man is no longer his own master, custodian of his own silly vanities and childish contentments he's nothing at all—being in the first place only an agent of a very experimental stage of organic free will”
― Zelda
― Zelda
“Pain doesn't make people, love does. Love is what saves them. Which you would know but you have none around you.”
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“When the moon of mourning is set and gone.
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
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“The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.”
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
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