"And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another a little further on, from to time time, fluttering, you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral."-- Molloy
"Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end."
"The distinctive quality of mediocrity is moderation: a precious quality, but cold; the result of gentle temperament, rather than strenuous efforts of the self."
"Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. If it were not that I desire to do something here--accomplish some work--I should certainly prefer to suffer and die rather than be at the pains to get a living by the modes men propose."
"Nightlong, in the granite yard, invisible cats/ Have been howling like women, or damaged instruments./ Already he can feel daylight, his white disease,/ Creeping up with her hatful of trivial repetitions./ The city is a map of cheerful twitters now,/ And everywhere people, eyes mica-silver and blank,/ Are riding to work in rows, as if recently brainwashed." -- "Insomniac"
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