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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

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You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

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...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired wi...more

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Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235...more

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He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutat...more

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My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

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After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' wha...more

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And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish, the great moon that once was rose now ...more

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Let me sing the beauty of my Maggie. Legs:--the knees attached to the thighs, knees shiny, thighs like milk. Arms:--the levers of my content, the serp...more

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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the...more

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Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no exampl...more

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Love is bitter, death is sweet.