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“If I were asked right now what I want from this short life, I could think of nothing better than these long, slow minutes, this absence of thought and emotion. Whenever I see a cat lying in the sun, I think of humanity.”
— Jun 25, 2023 02:12PM
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adam
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“It’s neither death nor life that I want: it’s that other thing shining in the depths of longing, like a possible diamond in a pit one can’t descend.”
— Mar 28, 2025 08:53AM
adam
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“To see and feel makes me feel a great hope, but I realize that hope is literary. And I’m doomed always to feel, like the world’s great damned men, that it’s better to think than to live.”
— Sep 19, 2024 02:01PM
adam
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“The sunset spreads over the scattered clouds that dot the entire sky. An immense calm hangs over the city, which is also growing calmer. Everything breathes beyond color and sound, in a deep and hushed sigh.”
— Sep 12, 2024 05:15PM
adam
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“To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lose the human heart that makes him love perfection.”
— Jul 22, 2024 06:52PM
adam
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“In prose, through transposition, we’re able to render everything. There is prose that dances, sings and recites to itself. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”
— Apr 07, 2024 08:32PM
adam
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“All I want from life is to feel it being lost in these unexpected evenings. Another life, of city at nightfall. Towards the ocean, the light dies out in a livid white which is blued by greenish cold.”
— Mar 20, 2024 08:44PM
adam
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“Let’s sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing. Life hurts less as we look at them. Everything, finally, is destiny.”
— Mar 18, 2024 11:08AM
adam
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“Blurry lights—I have the impression that I’ve known hours of every color, loves of every flavor. Throughout my life I lived to excess, and I was never enough for myself, not even in my dreams.”
— Nov 11, 2023 07:27PM
adam
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“I’m enchanted by pure dreams, those which have no relation to reality. Long corridors and cracks around the windows. All I want from myself is to observe life.”
— Oct 29, 2023 01:36AM
adam
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“A beach in the sun. Warmth in the cool breeze from across the sea. I love with my gaze, and not even in fantasy. My natural destiny is to be a visual lover of nature’s shapes and forms.”
— Oct 21, 2023 09:15PM
