“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving.”
― Angels in America
― Angels in America
“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible, and as nearly as possible, the definitive utterance of this singularity.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“I am, I am, I exist, I think therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think anymore.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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