lilly amber

“The frontier between your taste and mine is invisible; you will never be able to grasp it, proof that the frontier itself does not exist.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”
― Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renowned doses, so as to paralyze his faculties for the rest of his life by the infallible law of fatigue; one must, besides, with good mesmeric fluid, make it somnambulistically impossible for him to move, against his nature forcing his eyes to cloud over at your own fixed stare.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

“He swore to all the world and to himself that he would remain decent. And as long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money, which was a moment he had been waiting for, to show them all what he was made of.”
― Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz