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/ page 426 of 1205 /Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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