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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Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

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

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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

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Words without experience are meaningless.

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I don't think in any language. I think in images.

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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

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We think not in words but in shadows of words.

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