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There are many people for whom the dullness and sameness of their lives is not what they would have chosen for themselves nor a natural conformity with that lack of choice, but rather a snuffing out of self-knowledge, an automatic irony of the understanding.
— Apr 14, 2015 08:19AM
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Garima
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Seeing is so superior to thinking and reading so superior to writing. I may be deceived by what I see but at least I never think it's mine. What I read may depress me but at least I'm not troubled by the thought that I wrote it. How painful everything is if we think of it conscious of having the thought, like spiritual beings who have passed through that second evolution of consciousness by which we know that we know
— Apr 28, 2015 03:15AM
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The sweetness of having neither family nor companions, the gentle pleasure akin to that of exile, in which we feel the pride of distance shade into a hesitant voluptuousness, into the vague disquiet that comes with being far from home-yes, in my own indifferent way I enjoy all that.
— Apr 21, 2015 08:56AM
