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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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"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."
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"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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"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind."
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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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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
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"An answer is always a form of death."
Death


"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
Relationship


"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
Being


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love


"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life


"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society


"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
Sensitivity


"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
Life


"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance


"Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"
Art
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