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“The charm of horror only tempts the strong”
― Jean Lorrain

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
― Albert Camus

“He Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth wile.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust

“Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.”
― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust