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

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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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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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Long live the dead because we live in them.

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Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.

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