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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

"I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed for that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you."

"Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it'slike to be dying, and (b) not have died."
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"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."

"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."

"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"

"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."

"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."
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