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“ Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. ”

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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

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I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

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