The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and cover you with their influence. The recenter stars may be more critical, more in the...
To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
My feelings were big, sad, comfortless, of a thinking animal, my heart acting like an orb filled too big for my chest, not from revulsion, which I have to say I didn’t feel, but over-all general miser...
Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized peo...
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with...
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day...
But maybe time was invented so that misery might have an end. So that it shouldn't last forever? There may be something in this. And bliss, just the opposite, is eternal? There is no time in bliss. Al...
For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself - Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols. Make it the object of imitation to reach and release the high qualities. Make...
Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an...
I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And then? I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And what next? I get laid, I take a short holiday, but very soon after I fall upon those same thorns with gr...
Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important ex...
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.
Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.
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