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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and…
• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become…
• But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
• A story? No. No stories, never again.
• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had…
• To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
• Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages…
• The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
• A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with…
• The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
• Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)
• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember?…

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