Voices
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“He who is imprisoned in evil does not escape from it for fear of encountering—evil.”
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“To wound the heart is to create it.”
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“Near me nothing but distances.”
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“Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy”
“I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.”
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“My "I" has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest "you".”
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“In full light we are not even a shadow.”
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“As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.”
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“Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.”
“Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.”
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“I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.”
“I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.”
“My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.”
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
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“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
“The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.”
“You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.”
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”
“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”
“I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.”
“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
“Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”
“When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.”
“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
“You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.”
“I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.”
“It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.”
“When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”
“Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.”
“Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.”