“It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away.”
― The Friend
― The Friend
“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It's you that are the catastrophe, you're the bloody last judgement, your feet don't even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers. I wish you were dead, the lot of you. Let's make a bet,' and here he shook Nadaban by the shoulders, ‘that you don't even know what I'm talking about!! Because you don't talk, you "whisper" or "expostulate"; you don't walk down the street but "proceed feverishly"; you don't enter a place but "cross its threshold", you don't feel cold or hot, but "find yourselves shivering" or "feeling the sweat pour down you"! I haven't heard a straight word for hours, you can only mew and caterwaul; because if a hooligan throws a brick through your window you invoke the last judgement, because your brains are addled and filled up with steam, because if someone sticks your nose in shit all you do is sniff, stare and cry "sorcery!”
― The Melancholy of Resistance
― The Melancholy of Resistance
“Niets bestaat dat niet iets anders aanraakt.”
― Bezonken rood
― Bezonken rood
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