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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear

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Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the...more

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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing...more

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He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind...more

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There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

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The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorro...more

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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.