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Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
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You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
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Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
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Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.
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The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
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We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
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The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
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Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
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