The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

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To love is to undress our names.

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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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The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

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Deserve your dream.

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

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