"The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified."
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"To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived."
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"Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities."
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"What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood."
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"The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul."
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"I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company."
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"Liberty is the possibility of isolation."
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"God wills, man dreams, the work is born."
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"I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing."
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"If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue."
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"You breathe better when you're rich."
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"And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream."
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"All beginnings are involuntary."
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"If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings"
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"The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart."
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"I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off."
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"The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity."
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