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"I was reading Auster's New York Trilogy, but took a break from it for this book. This far, this is just what I felt like reading. It's chaotic and a bit over the top in just the right way, as well as beautifully written and smart. I hope it continues like this. I do need to look up a lot of things while reading, but I enjoy that type of books." — Apr 07, 2026 02:37AM
"I was reading Auster's New York Trilogy, but took a break from it for this book. This far, this is just what I felt like reading. It's chaotic and a bit over the top in just the right way, as well as beautifully written and smart. I hope it continues like this. I do need to look up a lot of things while reading, but I enjoy that type of books." — Apr 07, 2026 02:37AM
“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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