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Pursued by our origins... we all are.


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The universal view melts things into a blur.

The universal view melts things into a blur.



There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.



Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.



You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.



Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.



The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.



Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.



The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.



The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.



Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?





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Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity

Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity



A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.



Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.



I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.



a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.



Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.



I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!



Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.



You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.




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