“I could feel the certainty of a reality leeching out of me like calcium from a bone. I was starving my mind into obliqueness. I felt less and less. Words came and I spoke them in my head, then nestled in on the sound of them, got lost in the music.” RealityOblivionNumbOttessa MoshfeghMy Year Of Rest And RelaxationOblique Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“How can we ever bring ourselves to make love again, I thought, if we can speak of our love only by oblique reference to death?” LoveDeathSadMaking LoveContradictoryUnspokenAndre AcimanEnigma VariationsOblique Book:Enigma Variations Source: Enigma Variations
“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.” KnowledgeHistoryExpressionPersonal LifeSubterfugeObliqueCircumlocution Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Life’s easy. It’s living it that’s difficult.” LifeInspirationalTruthObviousExistentialismInsightfulOblique Author:Mike Sasso