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"But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head."
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"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."


"For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of a man, even our anthropologists have realised that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite."


"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."


"But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to sound no not to sound to carry too still for even the lightest leaf to carry the brief way here and not die the sound not die on the brief way the wave not die away."


"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."


"They comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same."
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