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• Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,…
• You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…
• Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am…
• Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one…
• Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may…
• There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility…
• Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of…
• It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
• There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.…
• I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
• But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.…
• We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...

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