“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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