Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Daily Dose


From Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer

THIS

"This was really the only thing I discovered in him after his return: a deep and unending solitude, as if he had been granted a gift that he didn't know what to do with. A gift that was poison to him and eventually killed him. But would it have killed me?"

From page 82

Friday, November 25, 2016

Daily Dose

From Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges

YEARS

"Years of solitude had taught him that, in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day, not even in jail or in the hospital, which does not bring surprises, which is not a translucent network of minimal surprises."

From The Waiting