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The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we ima...more

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Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

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This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglo...more

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. ...more

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I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to conti...more

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are i...more

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Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever I was, whatever I wasn’t—it’s all in what I am. ...more

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - ...more

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To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in...more

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By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

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That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability in myself to make the smallest gesture, even to im...more

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A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on th...more

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It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are ...more