Deserve your dream.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

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Where Without Whom

There is not
A single soul among the trees
And I
Don't know where I've gone.

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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Passage

More than air
More than water
More than lips
Light light

Your body is the trace of your body

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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