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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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