"Reality favors symmetry."
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"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much."
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"I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity."
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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
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"We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !"
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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."
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"The time for your labor has been granted."
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"My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether."
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"Censorship is the mother of metaphor."
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"When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place."
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"A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor."
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"The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved."
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"The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy."
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"What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?"
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"How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?"
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"Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
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"I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets."
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"You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death."
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"To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral."
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