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- The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather…
- Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I…
- Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.
- I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility…
- The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive…
- This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have…
- I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
- My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
- Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in…
- I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in…
- I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.…
- My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,…
- Kill me, or you are a murderer.
- I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for…
- Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
- Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude…
- There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such…
- I carry the bars within me.
- You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting…
- You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
- It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
- This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to…
- I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my…
- Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking…
- I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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