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Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Light is time thinking about itself.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
