“Love wants to spare the person to whom it dedicates itself every feeling of being other, and consequently it is full of dissimulation and pretense of similarity, constantly deceiving and feigning a sameness which in reality does not exist.”
—Daybreak, §532 (excerpt).
—Daybreak, §532 (excerpt).
“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Three-quarters of all the evil done in the world happens out of timidity, and this is above all a physiological phenomenon!”
—Daybreak, §538 (excerpt).
—Daybreak, §538 (excerpt).