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It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.


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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.



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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.



We all have appointments with the past.

We all have appointments with the past.



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I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.



At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.



Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!



The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.



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... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.





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