Author: Hilda Hilst

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• Corpernicus (1)
  • IN: With My Dog-Eyes (1986) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Vita brevis, sensus ebes, negligentiae, torpor et inutiles occupationes nos pancula scire permittent. Et aliquotients scita excutit ab animo per temporum lapsum frandatrix scientiae et inimica memoriam praeceps oblivio. The shortness of life, the dullness of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know but very little. And again and again swift oblivion, the embezzler of knowledge and the enemy of memory, shakes out of the mind, in the course of time, even what we knew.
    FROM: NULL, (1540), Journal, Poland
• Georges Bataille (1)
  • IN: With My Dog-Eyes (1986) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [...] je saisis en sombrant que la seule verité de Phomme, enfin entrevue, est d'être une supplication sans réponse. I grasp while sinking that the sole truth of man, glimpsed at last, is to be a supplication without response.
    FROM: Œuvres complètes Vol. 11, (1949), Book, France