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Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of ex...more

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No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

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I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last...more

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For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance sudd...more

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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

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Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

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To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, brigh...more

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A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps ou...more

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…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to think only of he...more

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…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something...more

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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.In such betrayal comes the ...more