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“Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere.”
― Story of the Eye
― Story of the Eye
“Thanks to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.”
― Piercing
― Piercing
“No dejéis que os digan que no hay monstruos.”
― La canción de la bolsa para el mareo
― La canción de la bolsa para el mareo
“Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
“Charles Baudelaire’s refusal was the most profound form of refusal, for it was in no way the assertion of an opposite principle. It only expressed that which was indefensible and impossible in the poet’s obstructed state of mind.”
― Literature and Evil
― Literature and Evil
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