"Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion."
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"Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage"
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"For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting."
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"For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand."
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"I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest."
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"At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words."
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"I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them."
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"For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes."
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"I write to save someone's life, probably my own"
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"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
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"I, who called love my hope for love."
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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."
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"Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life."
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"Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots."
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"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."
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"Facts and particulars annoy me."
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"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."
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