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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

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I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions,...more

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They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain a...more

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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

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Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the ...more

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In chaos, there is fertility.

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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the w...more

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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelo...more

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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

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I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to lov...more

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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. ...more