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• Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
• Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
• That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of…
• Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,…
• Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
• A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…
• But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only…
• Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

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