“The great artists were never those whose works embodied style in its least fractured, most perfect form but those who adopted style as a rigor to set against the chaotic expression of suffering, as a negative truth.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.”
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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