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Matthew Lowery
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I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The
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This is basically the same view that Nietzsche and Deleuze took in a more overtly philosophical sense - man (or consciousness) is the 'aftereffect' produced by the inreplay of subterranean 'forces', of the interplay of desires and 'wills'. Interesting to hear him say this.
“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
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