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“I could feel another leaf falling from my heart, the passing of another year.”
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“Because God, you know, is a great lord, and that’s what being a lord means: to forgive!”
— Jan 15, 2026 03:46PM
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“Woman is a fresh spring. You lean over her, you see your reflection and you drink; you drink until your bones crack.”
— Jan 15, 2026 03:45PM
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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
— Jan 15, 2026 03:44PM
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“I've no time to lose. You're young, you can still afford to be patient. I can't. But I do declare, the older I get the wilder I become! Don't let anyone tell me old age steadies a man! Nor that when he sees death coming he stretches out his neck and says: Cut off my head, please, so that I can go to heaven! The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!"
— Jan 15, 2026 03:42PM
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"No, I don't believe in anything. If I believed in man, I'd believe in God, and I'd believe in the devil, too."
— Jan 14, 2026 01:13PM
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"You drink the red juice and, lo and behold, your soul grows big, too big for the old carcass, it challenges God to a fight. Now tell me, boss, how does it happen?"
— Jan 14, 2026 01:12PM
I did not know. I was fully aware of what would be destroyed.
I did not know what would be built out of the ruins. No one can know that with any degree of certainty, I thought. The old world is tangible, solid, we live in it and are struggling with it every moment—it exists. The world of the future is not yet born, it is elusive, fluid, made of the light from which dreams are woven; it is a cloud buffeted by violent winds—love, hate, imagination, luck, God...."