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“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.”

Way Life Feels Writing Sometimes Moments Seems Happens Beautiful Existence Particular Terror Things Happen Beast Ecstasy Portions Penetrate Monstrous Plunge Totality

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.”

People Knows Life Sometimes Enough Answers Edges Terror Satisfaction Certainty Ambiguity Footprint

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.”

Thinking Men Life May Reality Life Is Mankind Century Terror Rage Cease Despite Thoughtful Desolation Uprooting

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”

Way Life Littles Moments Memories Our Lives Terrible Mere Terror Screens Nostalgia Suspense Continuity Melodrama

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)