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"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
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"If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity."
"I am offering you a real commitment- a place in my life forever. Even if our relationship ended, our tie to each other never would. Let me make you a vampire, Leila, and watch decades slide by like days while you're by my side."
"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."
"I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity."
"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space."
"The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern."
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"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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