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"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them, but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."
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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
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"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
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"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."
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"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."
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"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."
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"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
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"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."
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"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."
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"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
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"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."
World
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
Philosophy
"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest."
Nature
"There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite."
Mystery
"For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved."
Will
"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
Reason
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul."
Philosophy
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
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