‘Dostoyevsky wanted to portray a genuinely good man. It may seem ironic, choosing a young idiot as his hero, but in this world, goodness and idiocy are often equated.
This story tells of the destruction of a pure soul by a faithless world.’

The Religious Life of Satan

‘I’ve had a dream. And in that dream, the sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration. Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
But they won't understand that. No, they will not understand. Because I dreamed it. Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the fifth of September. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!’

Some late night thoughts are going to live upon.

The Harpies with The Suicides

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Barrett Plants Asyd)

The Wood of The Self-Murderers

Lolita

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

The River of Life

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Notes From Underground

The Echoing Green

Death Drive

A Poison Three

The Song of Los

The Angel

“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.'

All animals are equal. (But some animals are more equal than others.)(24:67)

No Animal Shall Kill Any Other Animal. (Without Cause.)

No Animal Shall Drink Alcohol. (To excess.)

No Animal Shall Wear Clothes. (Amor Fati)

Whatever goes upon four legs, Or has wings is a friend. (7:06)

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. (Finnegans Wake) (10:26)

...And Just Tease For All.

Auguries of Innocence

'I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.'

"He shall build me an house and I will stablish his
Throne for ever I will be his father and he shall be my son
I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom
Forever and his throne shall be established for evermore"

Old Man's Library

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