V.S. Naipaul Quotes

In My Late Thirties The Dream Of Disappointment And Exhaustion Had Been The Dream Of The Exploding Head: The Dream Of A Noise In My Head So Loud And Long That I Felt With The Brain That Survived That The Brain Could Not Survive; That This Was Death. Now, In My Early Fifties, After My Illness, After I Had Left The Manor Cottage And Put An End To That Section Of My Life, I Began To Be Awakened By Thoughts Of Death, The End Of Things; And Sometimes Not Even By Thoughts So Specific, Not Even By Fear Rational Or Fantastic, But By A Great Melancholy. This Melancholy Penetrated My Mind While I Slept; And Then, When I Awakened In Response To Its Prompting, I Was So Poisoned By It, Made So Much Not A Doer (as Men Must Be, Every Day Of Their Lives), That It Took The Best Part Of The Day To Shake It Off. And That Wasted Or Dark Day Added To The Gloom Preparing For The Night.

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