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“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
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