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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He ...more

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an in...more

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The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indign...more

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At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, a...more

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Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, ...more

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Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when...more

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Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to...more

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But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

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He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.

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He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this...more

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Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the ...more

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When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, to...more

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Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is n...more

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No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sor...more

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Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.