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“I realized that I had come here in the hope of once more finding that man so hopelessly in love: I had not seen him for years and years, although this memory lies like a transparency over all the visions I have of him. That evening, for the very reason that the surroundings were the same, the old image, coming into contact with a flesh and blood man smoking a cigarette, fell to dust and ashes, I had a shattering revelation: time goes by. I began to weep.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“I can accept the poverty of my knowledge, accept the fact that I don't know all these things, accept the emptiness. And I can do the same when people criticise me, I can accept my poverty in their eyes, say: "Yes, I am like that." And curiously enough, after doing this, I feel actually richer, instead of the lack I had felt before while trying so hard to think up reasons why they were wrong.”
― An Experiment in Leisure
― An Experiment in Leisure
“I have lost my Eurydice / I have lost my lover / and suddenly I am speaking French / and it seems to me I have never been in better voice.”
― Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize
― Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize
“be a brave dog - this is all material”
― Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize
― Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize
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