“You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 92)
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
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Source: The Complete Poems
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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Dream of Dying, from The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1890).
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Orhan Pamuk
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