"The essential doesn't change."
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"Against the charitable gesture there is no defence."
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"That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time."
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"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."
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"I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust."
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"So all things limp together for the only possible."
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
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"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
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"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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"But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything."
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"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."
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"To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth."
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"I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?"
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"All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing."
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"How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary."
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"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."
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"Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"I am still alive then. That may come in useful."
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"Two in distressmake sorrow less."
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