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By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of is
... See moreAldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Even so, step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone's droning voice grows hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs. The comparison holds good! Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
Honoré de Balzac • Father Goriot
I had discontinued the perusal of the paper in the midst of the narrative; but what I read, combined with information elsewhere obtained, threw, perhaps, a sufficient light upon these detestable transactions;
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
hombre ensangrentada sobre la corriente oscura. Un herido, un despedazado flota allí. Contemplo esta imagen con estremecimiento durante largo tiempo. Veo pasar un gran escarabajo negro en la corriente oscura. En el fondo más profundo de la corriente brilla un sol rojizo, irradiando el agua oscura. Entonces veo y me atrapa un horror, un anillado de
... See moreMaria Helena R. Mandacarú Guerra • El libro rojo de Jung
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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
