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To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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 To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

Mar 09,2023

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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet

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 I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet

Feb 26,2022

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There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.

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 There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.

May 02,2021

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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 An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Jan 23,2021

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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

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 Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

Jan 06,2021

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The instinctive persistence of life over and above any intelligence is something that provides matter for some of my

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 The instinctive persistence of life over and above any intelligence is something that provides matter for some of my

Dec 05,2020

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My whole trouble is that when I was pregnant with ideas I took fright at the ideal. That’s why I give birth to deformities

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 My whole trouble is that when I was pregnant with ideas I took fright at the ideal. That’s why I give birth to deformities

Nov 29,2020

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Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of

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 Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of

Nov 24,2020

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