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1 " Do not be surprised,' she said. 'It is I, and it is not I; You shall find me again, and you shall lose me; Once more shall I come among you; for few men have seen me, and none has understood me; And you shall forget me, and you shall recognize me, and you shall forget me. "
― Marcel Schwob , The Book of Monelle
2 " Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die. "
― Marcel Schwob
3 " Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you. "
4 " Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you. "
5 " May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot. "
6 " As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible. "
― Marcel Schwob , The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
7 " There is no science for the teguments of a leaf, for the filaments of a cell structure, the winding of a vein, the passion of a habit, or for the twists and quirks of character. "
― Marcel Schwob , Imaginary Lives
8 " It was at this time that people found along the roads and highways little children, tiny vagabonds who refused to grow up. Little girls of seven years knelt and prayed that they might not grow older, for puberty seemed to them a sign of mortality. "
9 " Monelle grew quiet and looked at me: I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute. "
10 " Behold the word: Destroy, destroy, destroy. Destroy within yourself; destroy what surrounds you. Make space for your soul and for all other souls.Destroy all good and all evil. Their ruins are the same.Destroy the old dwellings of man and old the dwellings of the soul; what is dead is a distorting mirror.Destroy, for all creation comes from destruction.And for higher benevolence you must annihilate lower benevolence. And thus new good appears saturated with evil. "
11 " This house could have been a prison or a hospital, but a prison where they locked up the innocent to prevent them from suffering, or a hospital where one goes to recover from the labor of life. And Monelle was both the jailer and the nurse. "
12 " Unlike most biographers it is here I leave Messrs. Burke and Hare, at the peak of their glory. Why destroy such an artistic effect by requiring them to languish along to the end of their lives, revealing their defects and their deceptions? We need only remember them, mask in hand, walking abroad on foggy nights. For their end was sordid like so many others. One of them, it appears, was hanged and Dr. Knox was forced to quit Edinburgh. Mr. Burke left no other works. "
13 " The very desire for the new is merely the hunger of the soul seeking form "
14 " Y Monelle agregó: Te hablaré de los momentos. [...]Piensa en el momento. Todo pensamiento que dura es una contradicción.Ama el momento. Todo amor que dura es odio.Sé sincero con el momento. Toda sinceridad que dura es una mentira.Sé justo con el momento. Toda justicia que dura es injusticia.Actúa en función del momento. Toda acción que dura es un reino difunto.Siente la felicidad del momento. Toda felicidad que dura es desgracia.Ten respecto por los momentos y no establezcas relaciones entre las cosas. [...] "
15 " Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs. "
16 " Monelle found me in the plain where I was wandering and took me by the hand. “Do not be surprised,” she said. “It is I, and it is not I; “You shall find me again, and you shall lose me; “Once more shall I come among you; for few men have seen me, and none has understood me; “And you shall forget me, and you shall recognize me, and you shall forget me. "
17 " With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot. "
18 " Τότε η Λουβέτ θυμήθηκε και προτίμησε ν'αγαπάει και να υποφέρει "
19 " Il invoquait le jour où la sphère divine se gonflerait, après toutes les transformations des âmes. Car le monde que nous connaissons est l'oeuvre de la haine, et sa dissolution sera l'oeuvre de l'amour. "
20 " Il étreignait ses seins métalliques et attachait sa bouche sur ses lèvres d'un violet sombre. "
