“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.”
― Pelleas And Melisande
― Pelleas And Melisande
“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”
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“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
― Le Barbier de Séville
(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
― Le Barbier de Séville
“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
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