Ionuț Goșa

“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Se zice că diavolul nu te lasă sa mori dacă n-ai făcut destule păcate, pentru că nu-i folosești la nimic. Tu vrei sa te spânzuri și el vine, îți taie creanga și te salvează.”
― Cătălin Dorian Florescu, De Blinde Masseur

“watched Lewis carefully without seeming to look at him, as you do when you are boxing, and I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Some people show evil as a great race horse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Lewis did not show evil; he just looked nasty.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius