For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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I think that cadaver is only the ideal self run mad, and if the other life, the secret life, could be found and brought home, then a person might live in peace and have no need for God. After all, He has no need for us, being complete.
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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