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• You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it?…
• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like…
• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats…
• Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
• Writing means revealing oneself to excess.
• The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is…
• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
• Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality…
• Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to…
• Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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