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I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

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I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a secret: life is deadly. I'll have to in...more

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And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?Don'...more

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

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I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world exce...more

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There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided ...more

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Long live the dead because we live in them.

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Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

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Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from h...more

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Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

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Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn lang...more