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“I know that the key to living well is first to will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“to throw me away like a thing,
when there is
no thing I ever prized
in this empty world of things.”
― Le Poème De La Fin
when there is
no thing I ever prized
in this empty world of things.”
― Le Poème De La Fin
“Such is Akhmatova, with her petty, narrow personal life, her paltry experiences, and her religious mystical eroticism.”
― On Literature, Music and Philosophy
― On Literature, Music and Philosophy
“Je dors à Buda et je me réveille à deux heures du matin. Je suis étreint par une tristesse et un désespoir comme je n’en ai jamais ressenti. Tout me paraît complètement absurde, ici et dans le monde pareillement. Ce pessimisme excessif vient naturellement de 1) ma constitution maniaco-dépressive, 2) l'inculture et l’amoralité de la société hongroise et 3) la prise de conscience des pulsions suicidaires de l’espèce humaine. Il me faut écrire quelques livres et, après, mourir, avec indifférence.”
― Journal: Les années hongroises 1943-1948
― Journal: Les années hongroises 1943-1948
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
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