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"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
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"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
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"People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
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"If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."
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"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
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"That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church."
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"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird's eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."
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"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues."
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"Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown."
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"I take showers to think."
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"If you feel that you are going without go within."
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"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
Wisdom
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
Decision-Making
"Somewhere out there the world must have an end."
Existence
"I started earning a living as a poet rather early on."
Living
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."
Life
"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
Beauty
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
Universe
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
Comedy
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
Inspirational
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
Imagination
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