Patrick

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Patrick.


Meditations on th...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Space of Lite...
Patrick is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Cities of the Red...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 16 books that Patrick is reading…
Loading...
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Michel Houellebecq
“Let's put a
chimpanzee in a tiny cage fronted by concrete bars. The animal would go berserk,
throw itself against the walls, rip out its hair, inflict cruel bites on itself, and in 73%
of cases will actually end up killing itself. Let's now make a breach in one of the
walls, which we will place next to a bottomless precipice. Our friendly sample
quadrumane will approach the edge, he'll look down, but remain at the edge for
ages, return there time and again, but generally he won't teeter over the brink; and
in all events his nervous state will be radically assuaged.”
Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“There is something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don’t give a damn whether they’re getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don’t ever try to understand what we’re here for. They just don’t care. Americans or not, they sleep no matter what, they’re bloated mollusks, no sensibility, no trouble with their conscience.
I’d seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I’d better go out, I said to myself, I’d better go out again. Maybe I’ll meet Robinson. Naturally that was an idiotic idea, but I dreamed it up as an excuse for going out again, because no matter how I tossed and turned on my narrow bed, I couldn’t snatch the tiniest scrap of sleep. Even masturbation, at times like that, provides neither comfort nor entertainment. Then you're really in despair.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Joseph de Maistre
“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”
Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France

Joris-Karl Huysmans
“There are two ways of ridding ourselves of a thing which burdens us, casting it away or letting it fall. To cast away requires an effort of which we may not be capable, to let fall imposes no labour, is simpler, without peril, within reach of all. To cast away, again, implies a certain interest, a certain animation, even a certain fear; to let fall is absolute indifference, absolute contempt; believe me, use this method, and Satan will flee.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, En Route

year in books

Patrick hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.



Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Patrick

Lists liked by Patrick