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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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You know, sometimes, whilst I'm writing to you, I feel a strange sensation, completely physical, as if before being able to speak to you I had to see the words abandon me in a long line before getting to you, and deliver themselves to your hands.

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When you hold things against each other, you're not in a two-way relationship anymore, but in a three-way: you, me and the worm that has started gnawing away at our story. In matter's obscurity, worms work with discretion, digging tunnels for years and, apart from some minor itchiness, you don't realize anything. Then one day you lay a cup on the table and the wood breaks, collapsing and in a moment, the sturdy surface you knew becomes a pile of soft sawdust.

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Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. This meaning has itself a being, based on which it manifests itself.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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As a burglar I was worthless, but as a liar I must confess that I have always been an artist.

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When you'll understand yourself you'll understand the world a lot better.

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Emotions were wild horses: in the end, you couldn't do anything but free them.

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He felt at peace; he was living one of those moments of existence that offers a sole alternative: losing control of ones actions.