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I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
The Stream Of Life
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.
Near to the Wild Heart
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
The Passion According to G.H.
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
The Passion According to G.H.
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?
Near to the Wild Heart
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
The Hour of the Star
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
The Hour of the Star
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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