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Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
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I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
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These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
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It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the..
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travel
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landscape
place
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Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
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Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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life
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed."
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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning poin..
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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tragedy
pleasure
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Art--the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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pain
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reality
meaning-of-life
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint [...] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, 'She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people...who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born "islomanes"...are direct descendents of the ..
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Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.
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I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?"
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In these days Melissa's absorbed and provoking gentleness had all the qualities of a rediscovered youth. Her long uncertain fingers - I used to feel them moving over my face when she thought I slept, as if to memorize the happiness we had shared. In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental - a passion to serve. My shabby clothes - the way she picked up a dirty shirt seemed to engulf it with an overflowing solicitude; in the ..
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion."
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.
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books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.
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nn `d@ m nwld lky nHb hw'l ldhyn ySybwnn bljrH kthr mn Gyrhm rb`y@ lskndry@ - bltzr
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One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.
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But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
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Balthazar sighed and said "Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation."
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
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