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“Intimately, and if it were hypothetically within my power; for what it has dreadfully done, and all that it continues doing to the world by its primary global influence - I'd wish to see the leading force of U.S. imperialism wiped from the very face of the Earth, and America returned to the rightful indigenous, with our world soon on the path, cured of this unending curse of modernity.”
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“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
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