Kristaps

“Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life.”
― Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

“You can work alone for years, it’s actually the only way to work if truth be told; but there always comes a moment when you feel the need to show your work to the world, less to receive its judgement than to reassure yourself about the existence of this work, or even of your own existence, for in a social species individuality is little more than a short piece of fiction.”
― Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. They fare as did that dwarf who kept guard over a captured princess in his castle. One day he took midday nap. When he woke up an hour later, the princess was gone. Quickly he pulled on his seven-league boots; with one stride he was far beyond her.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“But have you not met people in your dreams you never saw before? In dreams or out?
Sure.
And who were they?
I dont know. Dream people.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain