May 2013
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“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground
“I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him....”
– Martin Amis, Money (via atsbyvermouth)
“Thou wouldst go into the world, and art going with empty hands, with some...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor (via mellonikan)
“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of...”
– Dag Solstad, Shyness and Dignity (via teotihuacan)
“My writings are daily affirmations of death. I am painting myself into a corner...”
– Mitchell Heisman, from Suicide Note (via poeticsofdeath)
“No doubt Stalin ended the applause himself, on that occasion - with a diffident...”
– Martin Amis, Koba the Dead: Laughter and the Twenty Million (via fatandcomplacent)
“Extinction is real yet not empirical, since it is not of the order of...”
– Ray Brassier. (via egujisutansu)
“… A novel needs a hero, whereas here all the traits of an anti-hero have been...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via sunrec)
“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim...”
– Anna Akhmatova (via fyodors)
“Until the age of twelve I thought I was gifted with the power to shape the...”
– Édouard Levé, When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue (via poeticsofdeath)
