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“Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.”
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“Perhaps it is expected that I should lament about how I have suffered living with a man like Diego. But I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow, nor does the earth suffer because of the rains, nor does the atom suffer for letting its energy escape. To my way of thinking, everything has its natural compensation.”
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“Reason to live, they repeat like a pop song,
The bones of a beloved emperor, and I, the
motionless chariot
trying to drag them home with forced hope.”
― Letters to My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls
The bones of a beloved emperor, and I, the
motionless chariot
trying to drag them home with forced hope.”
― Letters to My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
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