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/ page 433 of 1205 /I would say it was the coffin of a midget Or a square baby Were there not such a din in it.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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