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“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“The only consciousness that persists in the hereafter is the consciousness of pain.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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