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“There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.”
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― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
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― The Book of Disquiet
“I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon”
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― A Writer's Diary
“And yet in a way one might say that the whole of life is a tissue of prodigious coincidences”
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― The Surgeon's Mate
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