Charles Beauregard

“He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Poem

Things will go on like this for
Ever. No
Thing shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall be
There. No
Thing but
Blue rocks shall
Fill the valley where I
Sleep.
Things shall go on like this for
Ever.
Things shall be un
Broken.
No action shall shatter. No
Thing shall escape and no
Body shall shatter ideas and no
Being shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall
Be present to
Witness the
Incident.

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Everything shall be always thus. No
Thing shall be turned or moved.
Touched.
All shall forever be so.”
― Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977