Brendan Donovan’s Reviews > The Book of Disquiet > Status Update

“The truly superior (and the happiest) men are those who, perceiving that everything is a fiction, make up their own novel before someone else does it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly robes in order to write in secret”

Never has monotony, tedium, feeling, and dreaming been so thoroughly, poetically, dare I say exhaustively explored. Truly one of a kind

“My poor companions with their lofty dreams, how i envy and despise them!
…Like eels in a bowl they become so entangled with one another that they can never escape. They may get a mention in the newspapers…but they never attain fame.
They are the happy ones because they are given the dream […] of stupidity. But as for those, like me, who have dreams without illusions […]”

“Life is whatever we make it. The traveler is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are.”