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He keeps a diary of thoughts etc. and says he will continue to write them down the next two years and publish a book of these in 1975 called "the last book". I have never met a man who so completely takes you under his spell, he is not a natural man, his personality embraces you with force. And though he is a spell binder when he speaks and could easily command an audience, he has never sought to be a leader. He says when ever anyone approached him with such an offer on a job, he refused and would collect his pay check and leave the job immediately rather than get involved.

Desire encompasses and surpasses good and evil, for the alternative to desire is solitude, and solitude is death.

Carlos Fuente

NYT March 11. 73

Magazine p.49

In the 'Summa Theologica', Saint Thomas says that fornication between man and woman even if they be married, is nevertheless a venial sin. Now, I think that's a very sexy idea. Sin multiplies the possibilities of desire.

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There comes a time when it's foolish to believe that you must live in order to create.

from article by [illegible] quotes of Luis Buñuel - p91

Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I screamed, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I would fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror that we're still just able to bear, and why we adore it is because it serenely disdains to destroy us.

He'd taken to roving the city, aimlessly, waiting for a coincidence.

V. by Pynchon p56

the poetics of contradiction

"to envision material objects as sacramental signs, messages from the unseen"

WH Auden

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Paul Klee

After a man's long work is over and the sound of his voice is still, those in whose regard he has held a high [arrow pointing to next page]

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