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How painful everything is when we think of it as conscious thinkers, as contemplative beings whose consciousness has reached that second stage by which we know what we know! Although the day is gorgeous, I can’t help but think this way. To think or to feel? Or what third thing among the stage-sets in the back? Tedium of twilight and disarray, shut fans, weariness from having had to live… (246, #285).
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Lucas Mattos
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I’m no one, no one at all. I don’t know how to feel, how to think, how to want. I’m the character of an unwritten novel, wafting in the air, dispersed without ever having been, among the dreams of someone who didn’t know how to complete me (227, #262).
— Mar 01, 2026 07:22AM
Lucas Mattos
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Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars (185, #210).
— Feb 17, 2026 06:24AM
Lucas Mattos
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“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude toward life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he flees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.”
— Jun 18, 2025 07:09AM
