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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
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"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."
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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."
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Personal Development
"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
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"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
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"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."
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"After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact."
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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
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"If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do."
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"I think it should be obvious by now that I'm not necessarily interested in reality."
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"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society
"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies."
Art
"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
Life
"Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from."
History
"Sometimes to return is a vulgarity."
Nostalgia
"Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page."
Life
"Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination."
Morality
"The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger."
Psychology
"The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?"
Philosophy
"Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever."
Isolation
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