

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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