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And the rest is rust and stardust.


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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.



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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.



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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.



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



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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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