Dark Renaissance Quotes

“awareness of how painfully limited life is. Hell is a progressive loss of interest in the books and subjects that had once seemed so endlessly fascinating. Hell is a vast enterprise of global exploitation that merely produces luxuries for wealthy patrons. Hell is a plan to save one’s country that shrinks into a set of tricks played on minor adversaries. Hell is a craving for access to secrets that”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival