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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.
Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.
Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.
I was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.
All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.
I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.
...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything
Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.
Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you are doing.
It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?