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‘In any given instance, colour, light, or mass may become a function rather than a determinant of form, because the conception as well as the apprehension of form is held to be a mental quite as much as a perceptual activity.’

“Haar stenen tong moest kunnen dansen op het metrum van haar ziel, de zwarte ziel waar ze – terecht – bang voor was. Het was aan mij om haar te laten verrijzen uit die dood. Wat ik toen niet zag, was dat ik ook bezig was mezelf te bevrijden. Haar waanzin is mijn waanzin.”

dit is eig een heel slecht boek

hm..

girls girl book

ik hou zo van de schrijfstijl, wat een leuk vakantie boek, erg rustig en vredig tot nu toe, looove it

‘you must cultivate poverty of spirit’

“no man can be loved.” fr

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“There is no such thing as love, the way you talk about it. You’ll find that kind of love in cheap moves and novels. Love is companionship, having friends in common, the same interests. Sex is the connotation you’re placing on love.”

I’m already in awe with this book.

“He appears to be more or less content to remain adrift and immune in his poetry could.”

“Whatever response I offer —an earnest confession of my own imminent failure, a bald-faced lie that sets my face a flame— will elicit the same knowing nod, the same world-weary smile.”