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There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused.
And this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.
This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.
Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.
I don't know who this woman could be to this sick man, who kisses him and cannot heal him with her kiss, who looks at him and cannot heal him with her eyes, who talks to him and cannot heal him with her word. Is she his mother? And why, then, can't she heal him? Is she his lover? And why, then, can't she heal him? Is she his sister? And why, then, can't she heal him? Is she, simply, a woman? And why, then, can't she heal him? For this woman has kissed him, has watched over him, has talked to him and has even carefully covered the sick man's neck and - what is trully astonishing! - she has not healed him.
Oh always, never to find the never of so much always.
Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.
Absurdity, only you are pure.
