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“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present in dreams of the past and future.”
― Conan: The Definitive Collection
― Conan: The Definitive Collection
“On the contrary, it is words that are vague. The reason why the thing can’t be expressed is that it’s too definite for language.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery. The sight of the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in the Moonlight made me see how ridiculous that is. The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“They were all enamoured with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they will frig thee up and so shalt their governments, even unto the end of the earth.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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