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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.


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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.



My past is everything I failed to be.

My past is everything I failed to be.



If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.



Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!



I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.



To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.



With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.



From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I



At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.



Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.





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