The Third Policeman

• “ ‘Is it life?’ he answered. ‘I would rather be without it,’ he said, ‘for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign Bacon.’”

• “(…) Death is nearly always present when the new direction is discovered.”

FLANN O'BRIEN

A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Man

• “Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless?”

• "Desire urges us to possess to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. (…) The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.”

JAMES JOYCE