“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
― The Thief's Journal
― The Thief's Journal
“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”
― The Book of Margins
― The Book of Margins
“I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.”
― Lieutenant Lookeast, and other stories;
― Lieutenant Lookeast, and other stories;
“Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.”
― I Wanderers
― I Wanderers
“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
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