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“I feel that one day an authentic new truth will emerge from all this, a truth warm and intimate, capable of summarizing me clearly, like a name, and striking an entirely new, unique note in me, and it will be the meaning of my life...”
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
“I kept nothing of myself but the ashes.”
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“... he divided the books into two piles.
"These went past. Those went through.”
― Autobiography of a Corpse
"These went past. Those went through.”
― Autobiography of a Corpse
“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”
― The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
― The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
― Happening
― Happening
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