“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
― Platform
― Platform
“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
“Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
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