Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

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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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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

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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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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

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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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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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