“The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation...
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”
― Notes from Underground
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”
― Notes from Underground
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”
― The Cry for Myth
― The Cry for Myth
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
― Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays
― Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays
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