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"There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist."
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"I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory."
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"To be understood is to prostitute oneself"
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"Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me."
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"But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?"
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"We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky."
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"...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad."
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"I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am."
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"The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."
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"Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."
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"Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day."
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"The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life."
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"I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless."
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"But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be."
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"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"
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"I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything."
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"To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think."

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"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."
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"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."
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"We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect."
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"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
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"I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life."
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"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."
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"The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!"
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"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided."
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"I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me."
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"I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up."
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"My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."
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"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."
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"In order to understand, I destroyed myself."
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"I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect"
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"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love."
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"I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist."
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"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."
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"My past is everything I failed to be."
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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it"
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
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