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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.”
― An Unofficial Rose
― An Unofficial Rose
“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
― Engleby
― Engleby
“In dreams there are only half-discoveries. In dreams we expect to be tricked and are constantly jumpy, awaiting the strange twist or the inevitable fall. In the event of the latter, even a peaceful death is denied us, and we are awake, sweaty and eyeballs still moving. As we spend the first waking moments trying desperately to remember our dream lives or wondering if a death in dreams provokes our real deaths, everything is soon forgotten and we move and live in the natural world.”
― White Elephants: Stories
― White Elephants: Stories
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HCL’s 2025 Year in Books
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