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- My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All…
- We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one…
- I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the…
- I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've…
- To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters…
- Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
- I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.
- When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability…
- I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with…
- All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and…
- The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
- There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
- Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of…
- And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all…
- Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to…
- All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about…
- We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work…
- I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be…
- If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies,…
- I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at…
- I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
- All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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