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“Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“I feel as if things are falling apart within me,
like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a
fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed
in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and
inaccessible.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

“If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.”
― Michel Houellebecq