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The ass is the face of the soul of sex.

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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

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there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

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all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight.

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Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.

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There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.

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the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much an...more

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If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

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Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

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during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more o...more

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nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a ...more

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unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any other way–and when the death strugglebeginsthe last ...more

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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.