“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Walden, or Life in the Woods
― Walden, or Life in the Woods
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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