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  • I’d rather look at things than speak about them.

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  • Clothes just undone—not that there were many,
    for an exquisite July was blazing.

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  • An echo of the days of pleasure,
    an echo of the days drew near me.

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  • I went into the luminous night,
    to those pleasures that were half real,
    and half-wheeling in my brain.

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  • And I think that the choicest life
    is the life that cannot be lived.

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  • But at least we’ve gained this much: we’ve rid ourselves
    of hope and expectation.

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  • But evening has fallen, unfortunately. Look, I even drank all the wine.

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