

“Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“You’re in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.â€�
'That’s not fair, comparing me to him. You don’t see me hammering nails in people.�
'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.”
― Sati
'That’s not fair, comparing me to him. You don’t see me hammering nails in people.�
'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.”
― Sati

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet

“Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you?”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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