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“All beauty is a dream, even if it exists, for beauty is always more than it is. The beauty I see in you isn’t here, next to me. What I see in you lives where I dream, far away from here. Beauty is a music which, heard in dreams, overflowed into life. But it’s not exactly life: it’s the life that dreamed.” -F.P.
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adam is on page 473 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“It’s neither death nor life that I want: it’s that other thing shining in the depths of longing, like a possible diamond in a pit one can’t descend.”
Mar 28, 2025 08:53AM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 145 of 480 of A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
“It’s not with the eyes but with the soul that I see. It’s not with the ears but with the soul that I hear. And if someone should ask what the soul is, I’ll answer that it’s me.”
Nov 25, 2024 07:07AM Add a comment
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

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adam is on page 472 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“To see and feel makes me feel a great hope, but I realize that hope is literary. And I’m doomed always to feel, like the world’s great damned men, that it’s better to think than to live.”
Sep 19, 2024 02:01PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 471 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“The sunset spreads over the scattered clouds that dot the entire sky. An immense calm hangs over the city, which is also growing calmer. Everything breathes beyond color and sound, in a deep and hushed sigh.”
Sep 12, 2024 05:15PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 250 of 864 of Letters to Véra
“𝙺𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜, 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎, 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐-”
Aug 11, 2024 07:40PM Add a comment
Letters to Véra

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adam is on page 470 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lose the human heart that makes him love perfection.”
Jul 22, 2024 06:52PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 222 of 864 of Letters to Véra
“Next to me there now lies, neatly wrapped, your little brown dress with its colorful scarf. You left it in Kolbsheim. They are playing billiards here, it’s noisy, I had a hot chocolate. Goodbye. . .”
Apr 12, 2024 08:58PM Add a comment
Letters to Véra

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adam is on page 468 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“In prose, through transposition, we’re able to render everything. There is prose that dances, sings and recites to itself. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”
Apr 07, 2024 08:32PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 29 of 52 of Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“The desire for beauty is merely a heightened form of the desire for life.”
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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

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adam is on page 466 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“All I want from life is to feel it being lost in these unexpected evenings. Another life, of city at nightfall. Towards the ocean, the light dies out in a livid white which is blued by greenish cold.”
Mar 20, 2024 08:44PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 465 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“Let’s sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing. Life hurts less as we look at them. Everything, finally, is destiny.”
Mar 18, 2024 11:08AM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 811 of 1088 of Infinite Jest
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Infinite Jest

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adam is on page 808 of 1088 of Infinite Jest
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Infinite Jest

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adam is on page 255 of 376 of Screams from the Balcony
“Falling in love with the color yellow. Wondering all the easy things. Comparing the sun to a lemon. Yes, yes. Words cutting into paper like flowers, like swords, like screams, like paint.”
Jan 17, 2024 07:11PM Add a comment
Screams from the Balcony

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adam is on page 43 of 320 of You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“As the shadows assume shapes, I fight the slow retreat. Now, lightning new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight, still is.”
Jan 14, 2024 08:20PM Add a comment
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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adam is on page 500 of 1220 of Against the Day
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Against the Day

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adam is on page 463 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“Blurry lights—I have the impression that I’ve known hours of every color, loves of every flavor. Throughout my life I lived to excess, and I was never enough for myself, not even in my dreams.”
Nov 11, 2023 07:27PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 460 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“I’m enchanted by pure dreams, those which have no relation to reality. Long corridors and cracks around the windows. All I want from myself is to observe life.”
Oct 29, 2023 01:36AM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 455 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“A beach in the sun. Warmth in the cool breeze from across the sea. I love with my gaze, and not even in fantasy. My natural destiny is to be a visual lover of nature’s shapes and forms.”
Oct 21, 2023 09:15PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 450 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“One who lives life falsely, in dreams, is still living life. Dreaming is a confession of one’s need to live. Sea coves seen through castle loopholes. Life is a child’s game in the sand. . .”
Sep 23, 2023 11:47PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 435 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“The outer world that I see is pure sensation.
I never forget that I feel. My days are so false, and I don’t even dream of trying to change them.”
Sep 09, 2023 11:02PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 430 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“My mind is an endless stream of daydreams. Everything I am comes down to this. For I’m not just a dreamer, I’m exclusively a dreamer.”
Sep 04, 2023 10:15PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 420 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“Slowly, as if in a daze, I grow calm, then numb.
I hover in the air, neither awake nor asleep, and find myself engulfed by another sort of reality, appearing from I don’t know where. . .”
Sep 01, 2023 09:37AM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 398 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
Jul 11, 2023 11:34PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 390 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭.”
Jul 07, 2023 02:38PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 385 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩.”
Jun 30, 2023 05:07PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 325 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“If I were asked right now what I want from this short life, I could think of nothing better than these long, slow minutes, this absence of thought and emotion. Whenever I see a cat lying in the sun, I think of humanity.”
Jun 25, 2023 02:12PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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adam is on page 300 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.”
Jun 16, 2023 01:19PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

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