“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
― The Subterraneans
― The Subterraneans
“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
― Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes
― Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes
“the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”
―
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”
―
“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
― A Season in Hell
― A Season in Hell
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