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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms


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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.



Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.



Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.



I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.



I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.



The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line



The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.



Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.



I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.



The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.





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In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.



The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.



Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.



Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.



A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.



Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.



Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.



My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.



The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.



You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.




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