“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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