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It was in that sense
that G. never sought out his “equals”. He disdained his equals as a source of life.
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and cut the chain of life with bad attention. And the other? The other would be the one to be alerted. Would receive the communication as if from nature, from a lake, from a forest! This other would be the being itself [alive].
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feeling of “shelter”.
whatever was conscious would not be disturbed in creation, would not have an enemy — and could even use the pretenses that are necessary for it to be true. there would be no one to notice these pretenses
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if they understood with consciousness and the head. It was a wrong contact, caused an aridity, a short circuit! The communication had to be between someone who was not disturbed by the other’s consciousness. And this other, without consciousness, would have in itself only a
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the friendships had dried up because of an essential moment and a kind of revulsion that followed.
It didn’t seem “natural” — and in this case “natural” was the antonym of “perverted” — it didn’t seem natural for people to
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important thing soon noticed him, the eyes blinked. Not about tot the thing itself supposedly, but in regard in a conscious way, with modesty [mutual] concerning the fact that they touch on important things. Many
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But the communication did not [do any good]. Deep down, he didn’t want her. She had already experienced the communication a thousand times, and it was always something dry and sensible. With friends: [they talked], [talked], and if for a moment they said something
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He felt that no act had ever symbolized him. his intimate unity had never broken down or surrendered as a unit. What a man was, was short of his life. And that humanity was an abstraction.
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– I leave the milk cooking until it is thick — then I drink it — like a cream.
– That’s pure sensuality!. she laughed referring more to the tone with which he spoke[had spoken], than to phrase itself. soon after speaking, she regretted it slightly, for there were words which,
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pronounced, they created a false atmosphere, as if harboring [duties] or attitudes. “Sensuality” was one of those ambiguous words. He noted the word with a quicker blink of the eyes but jumped over his own perspicacity and kept talking. He was however more cheerful.
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It seemed strange and indifferent to me. He seemed like a person who knew very well how things ended. She could not escape the order of the day — each hour seemed to impose an activity on him and none left him free. The impression was of being held prisoner
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the destination was so strong and real that, gazing at the morning, he seemed surprised that so much ineffability and grace could be chains.