Kristaps

“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

“I’ve more or less finished with the world as narration – the world of novels and films, the world of music as well. I’m now only interested in the world as juxtaposition – that of poetry and painting.”
― Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

“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

“I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of.
I know it. There's hard lessons in this world.
What's the hardest?
I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain