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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mys...more

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Malady of mortality

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Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed....more

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As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the sw...more

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I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focus...more

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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

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Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off ev...more

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New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

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Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain...more

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To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?

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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps w...more

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God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what the first organic cells did, Lestat, increased and ...more