“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 more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.”
― Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
― Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
“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
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