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• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it…
• Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
• The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
• Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
• What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
• In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its…
• Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
• By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
• One rose is enough for the dawn
• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…
• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of…
• How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of…

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