The Great Shadow Quotes

“It was not only the physical side of love that disgusted Inácio, he found the emotional side equally repellent.”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Great Shadow: (and other stories)

“And in my moments of greatest fear I feel, physically feel, as if tiny trains were travelling through my soul, pulled along on a string, and that my guts had become a complex system of glass and ivory wheels, tiny multicoloured discs, rusty clock hands – everything spins madly, like some aimless clockwork mechanism.”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Great Shadow: (and other stories)

“Madness had always seemed to him a consecration. ‘To be mad,’ he declared, ‘is to have a little of God in your soul.”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Great Shadow: (and other stories)