"The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the facades of houses as a citizen is in his four walls."
- Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism ... See MoreSee Less

A very occasional - and possibly last - reminder about the Dark Edinburgh book. I'm told the hardbacks of the second printing are almost gone and there won't be any more. Link in comments. ... See MoreSee Less

"I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones."
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land ... See MoreSee Less

"The night is the half of life, and the better half."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ... See MoreSee Less

"Grace appears most purely in that human form which either has no consciousness or an infinite consciousness."
- Heinrich von Kleist, On the Marionette Theatre ... See MoreSee Less

"Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"
- The Matrix ... See MoreSee Less

"There is no stone in the street and no brick in the wall that is not actually a deliberate monument - a message from some man, as much as if it were a telegram or a post-card."
- G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles ... See MoreSee Less

"I am now alone on earth, no longer having any brother, neighbor, friend, or society other than myself."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker ... See MoreSee Less

"In the world there is a unique path which no one but you may walk. Where does it lead? Do not ask; take it."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations ... See MoreSee Less

"I had long been running through the darkness, this way and that, guided by nothing but a vague yearning."
- Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog ... See MoreSee Less

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen ... See MoreSee Less

"There is a goal, but no way; what we call a way is hesitation."
- Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden ... See MoreSee Less

"The night was bursting with stars. We lay out in the darkness, and I could feel the cold earth beneath me."
- Albert Camus, L'Étranger ... See MoreSee Less