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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a…
• On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without…
• If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows…
• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that…
• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
• All beginnings are involuntary.
• The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
• Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
• The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
• I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it…
• Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned…
• I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

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