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“The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres...”
― Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
― Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
“You were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind that carries off your washing. But I'm speaking about cyclones. Typhoons, Gaffsie dear. Tornadoes, whirlwinds, sandstorms... Flood waves that carry houses away... But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I know that's not done. I know everything will turn out badly. I think about that all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you feel the same way?”
― Tales from Moominvalley
― Tales from Moominvalley
“I, who see the end of the world every day, and still I'm going on putting my clothes, and taking them off again, and eating and washing-uo the dishes and receiving visits, just as if nothing ever happened!”
― Tales from Moominvalley
― Tales from Moominvalley
“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
― The Road
― The Road
“If the city was dreaming," he told me, "then the city is asleep. And I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious around their rivers and estuaries, like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and harmless things."
"What I fear," he said, "is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
"What I fear," he said, "is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
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