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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to e...more

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Listen—I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’...more

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You have to be an artist and a madman...

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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events...more

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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so...more

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Althou...more