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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

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The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.
Light is time thinking about itself.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.