"Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea."
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"Mysterious affair, electricity."
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"Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!"
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"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."
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"Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!"
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"But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows."
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"We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener."
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"I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
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"Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again."
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"Do we mean love, when we say love?"
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"Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic."
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"It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions."
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"The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too."
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"Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years."
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"Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot."
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"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."
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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena."
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."
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"For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite."
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