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The Horla
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Au lieu de conclure par ces simples mots : «Je ne comprends pas parce que la cause m'échappe», nous imaginons aussitôt des mystères effrayants et des puissances surnaturelles.
“He was another knife I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.”
― Circe
― Circe
“had a long drink of water. It was delicious and refreshing (it had been a cloud only hours before).”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“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
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