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Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Sooner or later you'll have to tell the truth to someone.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

You were dead.'
She said.
'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

Seeing in the air things that the others did not see.

Reasons get forgotten.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

beyond the end of the world

Until the last glimmer of daylight.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air - we all feel it - and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

And a while later:
'It is a strange sort of pain.'
Softly.
'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.

I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.

Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle

In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.

Only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.