“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”
― Literature and Evil
― Literature and Evil
“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.”
― Invasion
― Invasion
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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