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"I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does."
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"My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . ."
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"I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before."
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Personal Development
"Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?"
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"I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does."
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"How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he'd linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living.Nothing fits the body so well as water."
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"How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?"
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"Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all."
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"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education
"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
Truth
"I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with - which, unfortunately, is rarely the case-tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And--most important-nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker."
Knowledge
"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas."
Belief
"Who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."
Death
"As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."
Privacy
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
Critique
"I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy."
Fulfillment
"I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell- I don't know why exactly."
Alienation
"One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?"
Interdependence
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