"I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to ...












It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
"Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But tha...
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"Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...
"I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I sup...
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"He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free.
"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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