Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Romain Gary
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  1. Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

  2. I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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  5. Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass jewels are best left in the dark. Let not the marble say what men do not. The essentials of the dead man's life--the trembling hope,...

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