“I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
― King Lear
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
― King Lear
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie—the truth lies outside, in what we do.”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
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