#literature
#philosophy
Illusions.
“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die”
– W.H. Auden,
The Age of Anxiety, 1947.
“For the others, like me, there is only the flash
Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one
Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass
To meet one’s madness”
