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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.
I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.
this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod
My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.
To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.
Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.