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“It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.”
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“La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.
Vamos cayendo, cayendo de nuestro cenit a nuestro nadir y dejamos el aire manchado de sangre para que se envenenen los que vengan mañana a respirarlo.”
― Altazor
Vamos cayendo, cayendo de nuestro cenit a nuestro nadir y dejamos el aire manchado de sangre para que se envenenen los que vengan mañana a respirarlo.”
― Altazor
“Understand I will quietly slip away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming over the oaks.
I'll pursue the solitary pathways of the twilight meadows with only this one dream. You come too.”
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I'll pursue the solitary pathways of the twilight meadows with only this one dream. You come too.”
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“You know," said Port, and his voice sounded unreal, as voices are likely to do after a long pause in an utterly silent spot, "the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind."
Kit shuddered slightly as she said: "From behind?"
"Yes."
"But what is behind?" Her voice was very small.
"Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.”
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Kit shuddered slightly as she said: "From behind?"
"Yes."
"But what is behind?" Her voice was very small.
"Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.”
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“Sunset is such a sad hour,” she said, presently. “If I watch the end of a day—any day—I always feel it’s the end of a whole epoch. And the autumn! It might as well be the end of everything,” he said. “That’s why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there’s no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don’t you feel that?”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
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