“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”
― Berlin Alexanderplatz
― Berlin Alexanderplatz
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.”
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“If I exist, I am not another”
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
“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.”
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
“My poetry will consist only in the attack by all means in my power upon Man, that wild beast, and the Creator, who should never have created such vermin. Volumes shall pile upon volumes until the end of my life, but only that one idea will be found therein . . . that one thought ever present in my consciousness!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
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