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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."

"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."

"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."

"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
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