Louise > Louise's Quotes

“To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. ”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Kind of Testament

“Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?”
― thomas pynchon

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”
― Alice James, The Diary of Alice James

“I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.”
― Felisberto Hernandez, Piano Stories

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”
― Felisberto Hernandez

“only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy”
― Michel Serres