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I'm getting old. Here I am, lounging in a chair, committed to my present life right up to the ears and believing in nothing. And yet I also wanted to set out for a Spain of mine. But it couldn't be fixed. Are there many Spains?
I am there, absorbing the ancient taste of blood and iron-tainted water; I am my own taste, I exist. That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I am there, absorbing the ancient taste of blood and iron-tainted water; I am my own taste, I exist. That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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in vain he repeated the once inspiring phrases: "I must be free. I must be self-impelled, and able to say: I am because I will; I am my own begin-ning?" Empty, pompous words, the commonplaces of the intellectual.
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he had said to himself: "I will be free," or rather he hadn't said anything at all, but that was what he wanted to say and it was in the nature of a bet; he had made a bet with himself that his whole life should be cast in the semblance of that unique moment.
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Since then Boris had regarded grown-ups as bulky and impotent divinities. If they bent down, they looked as though they were going to break; if they slipped and fell, the effect they produced in the onlooker was a desire to laugh and a sense of awe-stricken abhorrence. …... Grown-up people's tears were a mystical catastrophe, the sort of tears God sheds over the wickedness of mankind.
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he looks like a man who means to enjoy life, and I don't think the worse of him for that; …...
I can't explain it, I get the feeling he's austere, and then if you look at his eyes, you can see he knows too much, he's the sort of fellow who can't enjoy anything in a simple way, either eating, or drinking, or sleeping with women; he has to think about everything,
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