As every choice becomes a pseudo-choice and mankind becomes increasingly alienated from reality, the result is that the world becomes banal. The more banal things become, the more the spectacle affirms their importance and vitality, the
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“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
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