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“I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.”

KnowsWantGivingMightJoyPleasureTeachingBirthPaperGive MeSentencesProofCertaintyWitnessSpitePensFrankSheetsToilAstonishmentPainless
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“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”

PeopleThinkingWantEndsBodyYoungDiesNextForgetOne DaySolitudeTwentiesDeclineNext DayOld PeopleEightyRottenClose To Death
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