"Everything is theater."
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"I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me."
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"I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory."
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"Humanitarianism is rude."
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"It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking."
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"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
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"Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary."
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"Nature is the difference between the soul and God."
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"Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping."
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"Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell."
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"The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels."
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"Life is a thread that someone entangled."
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"I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless."
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"On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable."
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"I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man."
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"A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art."
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"The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels."
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"If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as."
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"Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions."
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"When I write, I solemnly visit myself."
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