Affliction Quote by Thomas Pynchon

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME.…

— Thomas Carlyle

“For me, madness was definitely not a condition of illness; I did not believe that I was ill. It was rather a country, opposed…

— Marguerite Sechehaye

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content…

— Naum Gabo

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency…

— Italo Calvino

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not…

— John Ashbery

“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an…

— Gene Wolfe

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

— Anonymous

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits…

— Stefan Zweig

“Human beings appear to be the eternal natural bridge between the tangible and the intangible.”

— Anna Mancini

“There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work…

— primo levi

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

— John Baldessari

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers