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"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
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"Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too."

"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."

"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."

"You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants."

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."

"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."

"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."

"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."
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