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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.”
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“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...”
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
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