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"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."
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"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
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"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."
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"I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them."
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"People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!"
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"Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression."
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"Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche."
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"Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming."
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"All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know."
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"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."
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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
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"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
Life
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
Politics
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
Truth
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
People
"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."
History
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
Food
"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
Man
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
Communication
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
God
"Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again."
Nature
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