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“Ce n’était ni vrai ni faux, c’était vécu.” “It was neither true nor false, but what was experienced.”

Listen to me: one must love the living and not the dead.”

No help can be given to the dead. Why continue to suffer? Is grief an offering to love, or to fear? 

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König's speech...wow. I can imagine the intensity with which an actor would deliver it.

"He took him by the arm, looking steadily into his eyes, with the look of a man in love." wow.

“There are those who need to write, those who need to dream, those who need to talk. … It’s all the same thing. The theater is not serious, but the bull-fight is, novels aren’t serious, but mythomania is.”

more dark stuff

It was neither true nor false, but real.

The roulette passage might be the best passage in this entire book so far.