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335 Translator Quotes

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Essence What Desire Sleep
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Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Friends Few Acquaintances Imagine
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Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Life Travel Traveler What
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I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Know Feel Want Think
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But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
Really-live Knowing What Life
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Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Never Discovered Qualities Attract
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I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Carry Awareness Defeat Banner
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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Norms People Exceptions Rule
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Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

Think Many Things
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

Whether Exist Slaves Gods
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And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.

Worth Great Soul Thinking
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I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Escape Born Inside Seeks
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Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

Blessed Entrust Lives
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I know nothing and my heart aches

Nothing Heart Aches
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Love Alone Cowardice Betrayal
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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…

Writing Paying Formal Visit
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget.

Ships Sailing Life Painful
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I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

Deviation Error Lived Existed
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This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

World Dream Born Conquer
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Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
Life Paradoxes Roses Thorns
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Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Dream Hopeless Speaking Silence
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To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.

True-wisdom What Success Consist
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We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Live Life Thought Divided
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Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
Life Conceive Whatever
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In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

Heart Peaceful Anguish Calm
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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...

See You Magical Mirror
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Life Write Literature Pleasant
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Empty Stage Actors Plays
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I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.

I Never Dream World
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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Remember Today Feel Yesterday
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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
Everything Interest Me Nothing
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The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Chill Feel Gnaws Present
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.

Morning Life Stupidity
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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

Much Self-destroyed Self-thinking Thoughts
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Love Cowardice Betrayal Ourselves
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Life Little I Denied
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We are not by nature cruel.

Cruel We By Nature
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Because Case Culture Imitation
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Deepest Early Early Life Imprint
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Animals Cannot Day Domesticated
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
Consciousness Different Human Human Consciousness
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Certainly Dead Feel Idea
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

Animals Change Heart Interest
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
Close Cruel Hearts Order
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Better Clearer Fiction Saying
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

About Animal Animals Belong
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
Fiction Interpret My Own Own
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

African Because Clearly European
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

After Claims Diligently Elizabeth
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