My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

- Jean Luc Godard

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

- H. P. Lovecraft

Matthew Lillard in Animal Room, 1995

adonis, tr. by khaled mattawa

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

Being. Since the word is inaccurate, it is crossed out. Since it is necessary, it is left legible.

Martin Heidegger, in a letter to Ernst Junger, 1956