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“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“The secret of our being still asks to be unfolded. Only now we understand that worrying at it and ragging it is no use. The first step is to stop these oscillations of consciousness that are keeping me awake. Only, before you command the oscillations to stop, before you check out, you must maneuver yourself into a position in which metaphysical aid can approach.”
― More Die of Heartbreak
― More Die of Heartbreak
“Because passion, like crime, does not like everyday order and well-being and every slight undoing of the bourgeois system, every confusion and infestation of the world is welcome to it, because it can unconditionally expect to find its advantage in it.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“The mistake of Marc Antony’s death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.”
― Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
― Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
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