Quote #149

I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.

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  1. Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
  2. That's not my love; that's just your life.
  3. They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what wo…
  4. And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
  5. Life is a thread that someone entangled.
  6. There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing th…
  7. When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
  8. I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

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