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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?
Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.
I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.
What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.
Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!
The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.