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"In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."

"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."

"Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean."

"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."

"What we say has conversational value, what we do has true value for life."

"If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever."

"Write the words on your heart."

"Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise."
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"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me."

"Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible."

"Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror."

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."

"It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality."

"I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."
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