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“I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“As for me, I used to be a bird
with a gentle white womb,
someone cut my throat
just for laughs,
I don’t know.
As for me, I used to be a great albatross
and whirled over the seas.
Someone put an end to my journey,
without any charity in the tone of it.
But even stretched out on the ground
I sing for you now
my songs of love.”
― Love Lessons: Selected Poems
with a gentle white womb,
someone cut my throat
just for laughs,
I don’t know.
As for me, I used to be a great albatross
and whirled over the seas.
Someone put an end to my journey,
without any charity in the tone of it.
But even stretched out on the ground
I sing for you now
my songs of love.”
― Love Lessons: Selected Poems
“Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.”
― Poems
― Poems
“God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;”
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
― An Instance of the Fingerpost
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