ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย * . โง THE SECRET HISTORYโง . *
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย - STARTERS -
โ Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. โ โ Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. โ โ This is the only story I will ever be able to tell. โ โ But how, how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder? โ โ Are you happy here? โ โ But isnโt it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? โ โ Our own selves make us most unhappy, and thatโs why weโre so anxious to lose them, donโt you think? โ โ Some things are too terrible to grasp at once.ย โ โ It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. โ โ Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. โ โ Love doesnโt conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. โ โ There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. โ โ I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. โ โ I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. โ โ How did they get there? When did this happen? โ โ Anything is grand if itโs done on a large enough scale. โ โ Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. โ โ I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. โ โ Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldnโt be any other way. โ โ It is easy to see things in retrospect. โ โ What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? โ โ I no longer have the ability to travel as freely as I would like. โ โ After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great. โ โ How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. โ โ They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. โ โ Someone โ was it van Gogh? โ said that orange is the color of insanity. โ โ I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyoneโs life when character is fixed forever. โ โ It is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. โ โ Who is in control here? โ โ I think itโs good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams. โ โ Itโs a terrible thing, what we did. โ โ I had never been warm in my life, ever. โ โ It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world. โ โ It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing. โ โ You are like children. Afraid of the dark. โ โ Itโs beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable. โ











