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"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."
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"I came to this city to escape."
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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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"For the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless."
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"I'd rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty."
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"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
Psychology
"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
Friendship
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
Literature
"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered."
Society
"Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation."
Mindfulness
"A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously."
Religion
"Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night."
Nature
"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
Media
"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."
Culture
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
Solitude
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