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- If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams,…
- The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and…
- What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the…
- My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves…
- There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies…
- Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
- In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them…
- Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,…
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate…
- And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.
- For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as…
- Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
- I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to…
- I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real…
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