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““I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.””

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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

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“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with…

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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…

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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

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“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

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“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

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pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

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“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

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“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So…

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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each…

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“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it…

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“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is…

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