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I sometimes longed for someone...

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

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You're like a witness. You're ...

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

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Nothing is more comical than s...

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

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In quoting others, we cite our...

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

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The short-story writer knows t...

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

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I realized that searching was ...

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

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She would smile and show no su...

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

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Of all our feelings the only o...

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

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As if you could pick in love, ...

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

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Why have we had to invent Eden...

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in ...

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

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Human history is the sad resul...

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

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We know that attention acts as...

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity Ђ' the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

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There was a time when I though...

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

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What good is a writer if he ca...

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

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The unusual is only found in a...

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

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Only by living absurdly is it ...

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

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Everything can be killed excep...

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

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When one wants to write, one w...

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

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La Maga did not know that my k...

La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....