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“His teacher had once told him, back in the day, that the different stages of life—childhood, youth, middle age, senescence—corresponded to several successive deaths. It was the same for the scraps of memory he tried to set down as fast as he could: scattered images from a period of his life that he watched flit by before they disappeared forever into oblivion.”
— Dec 30, 2024 04:15AM
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Michael
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One of his bedside books … was a treatise on morals called “The Art Of Not Speaking.” Ever since childhood, he had always tried to practice that particular art, a very difficult art, the one he admired most and that could be applied to any domain, even literature. Hadn’t his professor taught him that prose and poetry are made not only of words, but especially of silences?
— Apr 05, 2025 01:00PM
Michael
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Once upon a time, people used to consult sleepwalkers for their gift of second sight. He felt no different from them. What mattered was not to slip off the ridgeline and to know just how far one can dream one’s life.
— Apr 02, 2025 10:20AM
