The great samurai Miyamoto Musashi says it is necessary to lose the self and become one with Mu, the emptiness at the heart of existence to which everything returns. Thus the warrior finds life in death.
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“He’d lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he’d almost forgotten what real fear was.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
“Esa sería su venganza. Una obra magna creada desde el agujero negro. Un monumento de amor construido con palabras. Un edificio erigido de la nada cuyos planos diseñaría en un braille cerebral. La literatura, una balsa salvadora en el gigantesco y oscuro océano de un metro treinta por un metro. Se”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
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