“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game.”
― Vurt
― Vurt
“Mein Selbstwertgefühl hängt davon ab, wie viel von der Welt ich beim Herumlaufen verdränge? Himmel, was für ein erniedrigender Gedanke.”
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“Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus géniaux et les plus abominables de cette époque qui pourtant ne manqua pas de génies abominables.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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