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entry 28 — «Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow».

28 — «Just a few notes on a night that marks another stage in growing up: this time there was no pain, no passion, no hurt».

24 — If i didn't think, i'd be much happier.

18 — «I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them».

«Somewhere, in his room, Emile lies, about to sleep, listening to the rain. God only knows what he's thinking.

«[…] In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in».

[continuation of eight] Nothing is real except the present, and already, i feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as i do. And she is dead. I am the present, but i know i, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And i don’t want to die.

»—With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead».