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You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...

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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competi...more

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You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in ...more

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Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Kruppe...more

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I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.

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Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withere...more

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Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.

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Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?