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For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness –

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 For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness –

Feb 28,2021

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The trivialities natural to life, the insignificancies of the normal and vulgar, lie like a layer of dust, tracing a blurred,...

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 The trivialities natural to life, the insignificancies of the normal and vulgar, lie like a layer of dust, tracing a blurred,...

Feb 21,2021

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For the aesthete, tragedies are interesting to observe, but uncomfortable to experience.

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 For the aesthete, tragedies are interesting to observe, but uncomfortable to experience.

Feb 18,2021

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If I hear myself speaking out loud, the ears with which I hear myself speaking out loud do not listen to me in the same way

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 If I hear myself speaking out loud, the ears with which I hear myself speaking out loud do not listen to me in the same way

Feb 11,2021

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I loathe the happiness of all these people who don’t know they’re unhappy. Their true life is vegetative, their sufferings

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 I loathe the happiness of all these people who don’t know they’re unhappy. Their true life is vegetative, their sufferings

Feb 07,2021

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I still haven’t managed not to feel the pain of my solitude. It is so difficult to achieve the distinction of spirit that

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 I still haven’t managed not to feel the pain of my solitude. It is so difficult to achieve the distinction of spirit that

Jan 19,2021

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My life: a tragedy booed off the stage by the gods after only the first act. Friends: none. Just a few acquaintances who

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 My life: a tragedy booed off the stage by the gods after only the first act. Friends: none. Just a few acquaintances who

Jan 15,2021

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I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work. For me words are tangible bodies, visible sirens, sensualities

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 I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work. For me words are tangible bodies, visible sirens, sensualities

Jan 04,2021

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I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

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 I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

Dec 24,2020

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I question myself but do not know myself. The part of my life not wasted in thinking up confused interpretations of nothing

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 I question myself but do not know myself. The part of my life not wasted in thinking up confused interpretations of nothing

Dec 20,2020

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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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The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest incident becomes imbued with great significance.

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 The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest incident becomes imbued with great significance.

Nov 28,2020

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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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I, a pathetic and anonymous office clerk, write words as if they were the soul’s salvation.

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 I, a pathetic and anonymous office clerk, write words as if they were the soul’s salvation.

Nov 20,2020

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I’ve never loved anyone. The most that I’ve loved are my sensations – states of conscious seeing, impressions gathered

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 I’ve never loved anyone. The most that I’ve loved are my sensations – states of conscious seeing, impressions gathered

Nov 17,2020

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Grammar, in defining usage, makes divisions which are sometimes legitimate, sometimes false. For example, it divides verbs

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 Grammar, in defining usage, makes divisions which are sometimes legitimate, sometimes false. For example, it divides verbs

Nov 09,2020

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It’s the central error of the literary imagination to suppose that others are like us and must feel as we do. Fortunately

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 It’s the central error of the literary imagination to suppose that others are like us and must feel as we do. Fortunately

Nov 06,2020

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The world belongs to those who don’t feel. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of sensibility.

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 The world belongs to those who don’t feel. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of sensibility.

Oct 22,2020

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I’m older than Time and Space, because I’m conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of

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 I’m older than Time and Space, because I’m conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of

Oct 18,2020

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