"FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough."
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"I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive."
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"Ser compreendido é prostituir-se."
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"There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."
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"Property isn't theft: it's nothing."
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"Wasting time has an esthetics to it."
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"I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities."
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"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."
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"I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success."
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"Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me."
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"For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain."
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"Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things"
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"My homeland is the portuguese language."
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"Multipliquei-me para me sentir."
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"Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being."
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"I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul."
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"My boredom with everything has numbed me."
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"The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes."
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"And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be."
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"pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence."
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