Clotilde Belasco

“never replied to forevers. Life was long, and full of surprises.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“Everyone loves a good boxing story, especially God”
― Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Human life is exhausted from serving as the head of, or the reason for, the universe. To the extent that it becomes this head and this reason, to the extent that it becomes necessary to the universe, it accepts servitude. If it is not free, existence becomes empty or neutral, and if it is free, it is in play. The Earth, as long as it only gave rise to cataclysms, trees, and birds, was a free universe; the fascination of freedom was tarnished when the Earth produced a being who demanded necessity as law above the universe. Man however has remained free not to respond to any necessity; he is free to resemble everything that is not himself in the universe. He can set aside the thought that it is he or God who keeps the rest of things from being absurd.”
― Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939