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“I could feel another leaf falling from my heart, the passing of another year.”
— Jan 15, 2026 05:16PM
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“Because God, you know, is a great lord, and that’s what being a lord means: to forgive!”
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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!"
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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."
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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?"
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“I went over my whole life, which appeared vapid, incoherent and hesitating, dreamlike. I contemplated it despairingly. Like a fleecy cloud attacked by the winds from the heights, my life constantly changed shape. It came to pieces, reformed, was metamorphosed—it was, by turns, a swan, a dog, a demon, a scorpion. a monkey—and the cloud was forever being frayed and torn. It was driven by the winds of heaven and shot with the rainbow.”
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“Bending over it, I tried to help it with my breath. In vain. It needed to be hatched out patiently and the unfolding of the wings should be a gradual process in the sun. Now it was too late. My breath had forced the butterfly to appear, all crumpled, before its time It struggled desperately and, a few seconds later, died in the palm of my hand.That little body is, I do believe, the greatest weight I have on my conscience. For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not. hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.”
