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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
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"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
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"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."
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"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."
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"All right,' Nico relented. 'Maybe a little '. He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore."
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"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."
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"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."
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"Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day."
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"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."
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"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."
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"I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
Chance
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Work
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
Expression
"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."
Work
"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
Life
"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."
Art
"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm."
Trust
"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."
Love
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