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- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
- What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
- Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I…
- I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than…
- Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep…
- I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
- The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things…
- Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he…
- Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
- Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old…
- Nothing is more real than nothing.
- We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion…
- Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with…
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