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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it ...more

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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

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Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from...more

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In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for h...more

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Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What wa...more

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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of ev...more

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Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand th...more

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It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I realized that everyone else was not doing i...more

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Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

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The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starlin...more

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Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

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I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don't have to think at all. It's like I just put my...more

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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.