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Again we go West
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The beauty of aging wood and tightly thatched roofs was sacrificed to the fireproof banality of concrete
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
I love to see the look with which it braves,
Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,
The lightning, the fierce wind, the trampling waves.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
War in cyberspace is continuous with its simulation: military intelligence fighting future wars which are entirely real, even when they are never implemented outside computer systems.
Almost every day Peter was at the bookmaker's. He sat down on the beer crate that served as a stool in front of Madsen's chair and let his mouth run.
Aesthetes on both sides of the Channel reveled in luxury, dismissing more prosaic concerns as beneath their attention, but the English did so on grounds of abundance, the French on grounds of apocalypse.
Cela est incontestable, lui repliqua-t-on. Mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de tems en tems un Amiral pour encourager les autres.
With such men ranked among France’s literary eminences, little wonder Huysmans felt there was no one left worth writing for.
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend
Competition within rules is politics, but competition to set rules is war. When politics seems more like war than it used to, this is why.
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Because I bear my Father’s name
I am not quite despised
See anything
brought about by causes
as like a star,
an obstruction of the eye,
a lamp, an illusion,
the dew, or a bubble;
a dream, or lightning,
or else a cloud.
With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day. I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.