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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”
― Zazie in the Metro
― Zazie in the Metro
“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
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