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I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City

We fall asleep on words / we wake among words

A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important