“A man rarely feels like laughing alone.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.”
― Aphorisms
― Aphorisms
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books, enchantments as well as combats, battles, challenges, wounds, courtings, loves, torments, and other impossible foolishness, and he became so convinced in his imagination of the truth of all the countless grandiloquent and false inventions he read that for him no history in the world was truer.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“Time, said Austerlitz in the observation room in Greenwich, was by far the most artificial of all our inventions,”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz
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