We think not in words but in shadows of words.

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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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And the rest is rust and stardust.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

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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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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

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