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“‘You make words seem shabby things.’”

“He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.”

Plot is finally kicking in, let’s go.

Oh my god, I hate these long ass chapters of someone just yapping.

“”And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.””

“The onanistic literary picture of myself I caressed up out of reality began to dominate my life.”

“The truth rushed down on me like a burying avalanche. I was not a poet.
I felt no consolation in this knowledge, but only a red anger that evolution could allow such sensitivity and such inadequacy to coexist in the same mind.”

“I don't want to live any more. I spend most of my life not wanting to live. The only place I am happy is here where we're being taught, and I have to think of something else, or reading books, or in the cinema. Or in bed. I'm only happy when I forget to exist.”