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“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.”
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“Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.”
― Philosophical Writings
― Philosophical Writings
“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.”
― The Albertine Workout
― The Albertine Workout
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