Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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We think not in words but in shadows of words.

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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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