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As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’ She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.

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My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that ar…

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And then the days came when I was alone.

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All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rh…

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A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

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You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

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Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

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When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;…

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I am the only real truth I know.

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There is always the other side, always.

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