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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."

"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."

"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

"The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose."

"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"
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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"Last night, lost in spaces between star-bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you."

"Yes I understand your spells-your sex magic-at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in..."

"I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you..."

"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."
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