Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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