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“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”
“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”
“Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”
“I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance to scratch a deep hole in the back of my retina, so that when I finally di...”
“Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.”
“Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. Sometimes it seems like a cat, the panther with its moon mad gait or a tiger with stripes of ash ...”
“Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.”
“Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Es...”
“Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.”
“Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.”
“Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.”
“Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a...”
“Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”
“Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.”
“I want something else. Im not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and its drenched in sunlight and its weightless and I know its not cheap. Its probably not even real.”
“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
“What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidsons corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes ...”
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
“I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.”
“What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes...”
