Spadework for a Palace Quotes

“people must be told the truth, and, if you are truly an artist, this is the spirit in which you have to create architecture and poetry and music and science and philosophy, you have to look people in the eye as you tell them the truth about this universe in which we exist, that in fact this universe is in a state of war, there is no peace, the universe means danger, hazard, stress and destruction—nothing is whole and intact, the very notion of an intact whole is a lie—peace and tranquility, permanence and rest are illusions far more dangerous than the truth, for the truth of the universe is indeed danger, hazard, stress and destruction, but denying that, by means of an architecture that is willfully mendacious or just not intelligent enough, as Woods sitting in that tavern demonstrates in his sketchbook, and as his great predecessor Melville had said in his own transfigured manner, denial is tantamount to preventing us from readying ourselves for what has been and what will be, preventing us from confronting our fate, confronting the actual meaning of suffering, illusion, and dignity, in other words the actual meaning of the drama that is humanity’s lot, oh well, once again I’ve allowed myself to get a little carried away”
― László Krasznahorkai, Spadework for a Palace