I am not the we of anyone.

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You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.

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Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

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If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

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Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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