“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion, a madman not yet crazy enough to be locked up; but, having recognized that, one needs even more spiritual courage to adapt oneself perfectly to one's destiny, to accept without rebellion, without resignation, without a single gesture or attempt at a gesture of protest, the elemental curse nature has laid upon one.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.”
― The Book of Disquiet
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.”
― The Book of Disquiet
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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