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The Death of a Beekeeper The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
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“The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
“Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
“This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is a precise measure of the force which has made my existence possible. Death and life are actually MONSTROUS things.”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
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“A humanidade, que ao longo de milhares de anos foi atormentada pela ideia falsa, bizarra e infeliz de que era dominada por uma figura paternal severa e quase cheia de ódio, no espaço de alguns dias descobriu o seu erro.
Em vez dele, havia uma mãe.
Enquanto a existência a cada momento se afastava, a uma velocidade crescente, do estado descritível para entrar num reino para o qual já não existiam palavras, A LÍNGUA COMEÇOU A MORRER.
Um dos últimos fragmentos de linguagem dizia:
SE DEUS EXISTE, TUDO É PERMITIDO.”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
“April 9th. Hope is almost as difficult as the other. But one is simply more used to hoping and fearing than to find oneself in the middle of what one had hoped or feared.

What I have learned: that there is no real escape from life.

One can only postpone the decision with cunning and cleverness. But there is no way out. It is a totally closed system, and at the exit there is only death. And that naturally is no exit at all.

I am a body. Nothing but a body. Everything which has to be done, which can be done, must happen within this body.

(The Yellow Book IV:2)”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
“O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
“Se esiste un dio, è nostro compito dire no. Se esiste un dio, è compito dell’uomo essere la sua negazione. Il mio compito durante i giorni, le settimane o nel peggiore dei casi i mesi che mi rimangono sarà di essere un grande e chiaro NO.”
Lars Gustafsson, Mort d'un apicultor
“Nel profondo di ogni essere umano c'è un enigma nero come la notte. Lo scuro della pupilla altro non è che quella notte priva di stelle, lo scuro giù nel profondo dell'occhio altro non è che il buio stesso dell'universo. Solo come mistero l'uomo assume grandezza e chiarezza sufficienti. [...]”
Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper