Quote #36

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

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  3. I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, dr…
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  5. I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
  6. Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
  7. I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more,…
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