“What is a country but a life sentence?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom, and I saw it was possible that the consequences of Morgan’s Falls had at no stage been within my control.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Our desires permeate our perceptions”
― Black Dogs
― Black Dogs
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