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The Following Story (1991)
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We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.
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Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.
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That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.
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Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
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For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.
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July 31, 1933
(age 91)
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