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"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

"I am alive because you want me to."

"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."
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"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."

"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."

"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."
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