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Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a…

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For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing…

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that…

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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a…

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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new…

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Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

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I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

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“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.”

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That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

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“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything, cancels out, destroys all meaning. All individual intelligence. When one has understood, one stops, satisfied with what…

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“MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a…

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