“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
“Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Four Quartets
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Four Quartets
“The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.”
― Zero K
― Zero K
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