Cosmopolis (novel) Quotes

“To know and not to act is not to know.”

“The logical extension of business is murder.”

“A rat became the unit of currency.”

“Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.”

“It's interesting to be near a man somebody wants to kill.”

“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”

“A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.”

“"I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness."”

“"You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels."
"Its own grave-diggers."”

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“It is in me to hurt someone and I haven't always known this. The act and depth of writing will tell me if I'm capable.”

“I can see the scornful humor and pity in what I do sometimes. And I can almost enjoy it on the level of being helpless.”

“But whatever the sundry facts, I'm not so different from you in your inner life in the sense that we're all uncontrollable.”

“World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. But nothing is self-contained. Everything enters something else.”

“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”

“There are great themes running through my mind. The themes of loneliness and human discard. The theme of who do I hate when there's no one left.”

“There was something about the noise that he did not choose to wish away. It was the tone of some fundamental ache, a lament so old it sounded aboriginal.”

“Computer power eliminates doubt. All doubt rises from past experience. But the past is disappearing. We used to know the past but not the future. This is changing.”

“I've never liked thinking back, going back in time, reviewing the day or the week or the life. To crush and gut. To eviscerate. Power works best when there's no memory attached.”

“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”